I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.