Tom Smothers

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.