"If your default mode is to give 100% at everything you do, your worst day will be better than the average person's best day," he says. "Some of your greatest performances, you were sick as a dog, you were worn out and tired, and you came through because you were relaxed." 'We're going to a spot where, I mean, I don't feel like doing this,' David Letterman asks his co-hosts. "'I'm going to have to get back with you later.' And that's all there is to it.'"

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