I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

There is something endearing about the weatherman.

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

The thing about 'Bad Habits' was the album before that, 'Reckless,' was me going in with a total cocky attitude.