They're saying, 'Why not try and get some of that business?'

I believe that once we are all gone, Keith Richards will still be here...with 5 cockroaches saying 'you know I smoked your uncle, did you know that?'

And then there was [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld coming out and saying, "I don't know when. I don't know where. But something bad is going to happen." And everyone else is saying, "Wait a minute, are you working with Miss Cleo or something? What is this, the Central Intuitive Agency?" . . . And you have Bush, hearing about all the fighting over Kashmir, and saying, "What? It's just a sweater!"

They've been saying they don't have plans to add another leg to the business, so it certainly looks like a sensible move to maintain the capital structure.

Way before it was popular, he said that I could go far in this business. He kept saying I'd be president and then I said I'd be state president. He encouraged me, and I never thought that I, a little boy from Brooklyn, New York, could do those things. Mel was always ahead of the curve.

But, as ever, with each minimum wage increase comes the predictable wave of protests from business saying that it cannot afford another rise.