I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

I don't know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

When I was young I thought, 'Yeah, people don't see, they're not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am'. And the guys that mentored me were like, 'You just have to keep getting up'. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.