Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.