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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.

I had a hundred things I wanted to be, but when I was 13, I wanted to be an inventor. I wanted to improve the blow-dryer because it takes so long to blow-dry your hair, and it's just a waste of time. I wanted to invent the therm-alarm, which would have you throw your sheets off in the night when you got too hot.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream?

I still have a dream.

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.