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.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.'

Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.