Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.