On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

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

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.

I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.