The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.

I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.

I was Pee-wee Herman for so many years that it wasn't really a question that I didn't want to do other things.

I would love to be in Kansas.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.