When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

Our career had a sort of funny shape.

I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.