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.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

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

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.

I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream era I would have loved to have been part of in Hollywood then is happening right now, but it's happening on television, with these big complicated story arcs and real character-driven shows and sheer ambiguity left and right.

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.