If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

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.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.