Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, ‘Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?’ Exactly, that’s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off.

Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.