Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.