I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

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.

I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I'd still have plenty of other things to do.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.