The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

For a sitcom sex scene, you get in bed and that's the end of the scene. It quick and it was fast, but it was foreign territory for me. Not for Bobby. Bobby Cannavale has been down that road before. With my character, I think it will be a one-and-out. I don't think you'll see my character [in Vinyl] naked again, so relax everybody.

I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

I have this mistress: show business.

I do still get intimidated by certain things.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.