The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are important. Like Christmas, I like to go into a church and hear the carols sung. There's a comfort of actually going inside of a church, I find them serene. They're unchanging.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.