That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.