I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

That's who unconditional love is for - dogs and their masters, fools and their gods.

No matter how good you are to people, you will always have barriers and enemies on your way to success

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.