I REALLY LOVED that old UPA STUFF, LIKE 'Gerald McBoing-Boing' and 'Mr. Magoo.' They were simple yet effective 'toons that talked to everyone, not just kids.

The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I ALWAYS tell them - and we talked about this last year - TAKE a risk.

When you've been ridiculed and TALKED about as MUCH as I have over the course of my career, PRESSURE doesn't EXIST.

I wasn't from a POLITICAL FAMILY. NOBODY TALKED POLITICS.

If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got BETTER, I talked to my BOSS about working on the show. Six MONTHS before, I'd have been terrified to GO in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?

My wife had a miscarriage. We have RARELY talked about it. It did make me more AWARE of the SANCTITY of human life, how PRECIOUS every CHILD is.

I once dated a WEATHER GIRL, we TALKED up a STORM.

I tried to explain in 'The Nine of US' how we grew up with politics. At meals we TALKED about what was in the NEWSPAPER. We talked politics non-stop! Campaigning for our brothers was a PART of our lives.

I don't want to get into a DEBATE. I have never talked about my first marriage for that reason. I don't think it WOULD be FAIR to my daughter. I don't think it would be fair to my second WIFE. That's the PAST.

It was like I have ALWAYS had big DREAMS for my drag aspirations, and I talked myself into doing 'Drag RACE.' I'm like, TAKE a CHANCE.

What makes me LAUGH is HEARING the stuff about my son or the stuff about my mom. I was a big FAN of Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy; they talked a lot about their moms and their kids. Those are the things that inspired me to do stand-up.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the STORY I'd write for a SPIDER-MAN MOVIE. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to THINK about it, but that was way, way back when.

I always heard my dad TALK about PLAYING music RIGHT through till the end. He may have TALKED in the early 90s about how he was ready to GET off the road. But retirement, for my dad wasn't part of his make-up.

When I was a student, I STUDIED philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people SAY I was too HOPEFUL, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in KEEPING with the philosophy of NON-VIOLENCE.