I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don't know. I guess I've always keyed in on that perspective.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.