As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.

I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.