The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album.

In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole.

Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album.

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.