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.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

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

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

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.