If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

For a few years all I listened to was The Smiths, Things Fall Apart by The Roots, Love Is Dead by The Mr. T Experience, Nostalgic for Nothing by J Church, and the first Servotron album No Room for Humans. And that was it. For two or three years, those are the albums I listened to. I just fell into this very bizarre phase where my head shut down on me. I just obsessed over things and those albums happened to be in that rotation of me obsessing over things.

If I could have enough money that I know I could buy a house someday, and if I want to have kids, I could raise them - I don't need the money grab. I don't need to have a mansion. I just need to be creative and happy.

There are many hundreds of millions of people who have jobs harder than (mine), and I also remind myself of that every day. No matter how frustrating this can be, I am very lucky that I have been able to cobble together a little life, in which (comedy) is what I do. I am certainly not in danger of getting stuck in a mine anytime soon.

The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.

I would say that in the past year I have had to begrudgingly admit that I am finally a success of some level, sure.

I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.