I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I find it hard to judge my own work so it was good to have someone who could look at it. It was like, "Oh, she likes it, then it's good."

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.

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.

I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

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