I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

I really think everything is fair game.

My mom was always someone who if, even now, I say I met a certain famous person, she always says, "She's married to so and so!"

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

If you sell the Vatican and you take that money and you use it to feed every single human being on the planet, you will get cah-azy pussy. All the pussy. I don't mean literally. That might not be your cup of tea. I don't know what your version of 'all the pussy' is. But you'll get all the pussy.

In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.