People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

I don't do live things.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.