I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.