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

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

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

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.