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.

It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.