Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother

You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.

Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!