In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.