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I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

You either entertain an audience or you don't.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.