Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself.

When I got my job on Parks, it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Shut your damn mouth.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.