“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”

“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.”

“I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.”

“We do not take humor seriously enough.”

“As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.”

“In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.”

“Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.”

“One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.”

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”