I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

You really burden the reader if you put things in but, "Oh, it's not interesting, but I'll put it in anyway." Then the reader's going to think, like, "Mmm... no thanks." So the thing is to cut all that stuff out before its published.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.