You Can Raise Welts Like Nobody Else,

I Went From Adolescence To Senility, Trying To Bypass Maturity.

Filth, I'm Glad To Say, Is In The Mind Of The Beholder. When Correctly Viewed, Everything Is Lewd.

Comedy Is Very Important. For One Thing, It Keeps You Sane. But It's Not Really A Conversion. I Mean, It's Marginally A Conversion, Because If People Tune In Or Go To A Nightclub Or Even Watch Television, And Hear That A Lot Of Other People Are Laughing At Something You Thought Was Not Funny, At Least It'll Force You To Reconsider.

My Last Public Performance For Money Was In 1967. For Free, It Was 1972, With The Exception Of Two Little One-shot, One-song Things. But That's Just For Friends, Out Of Friendship For The People Involved, And Also Because It Was Fun.

To Me, Being Funny Is More Important Than Making A Point, But I Don't Know. Most Politicians Are So Interested In Making Points That They Don't ... I'd Rather Be Funny Myself, And I'd Rather Listen To Somebody With A Little Sense Of Humor.