Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

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.

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

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.

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