It's not interesting enough if you don't know who you are, what you want. You need to make educated decisions about your moves and talk to people who care about you. And you need to have people who will have your back.

I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe...

I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.