Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

Be relentless and then you'll break through.

The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.