I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

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.

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

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

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