You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.