I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power.

My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.

It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel like this song was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.