I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.