Dogs are too much to handle. I don't need anything in my house that's needier than me.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

I'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just want to answer questions, but a lot of times, all of a sudden you drift away, and you don't remember you're on the mic, and you're in something real.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.