You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it.

As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.