In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.

Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!

You look like a horse in a man costume

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.