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

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.

I find that if I don't do interviews, I get a little squirrely. I think that when you engage with someone else, or when you engage in something you're passionate about, you're sort of out of your own head.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.