Love is a promise delivered already broken.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’

I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.