Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.