Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here's my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride ...

The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'

What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.