I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection..

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there go….

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired..

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special..

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds.….

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and pl….

I'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just w….

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career..

As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few yea….

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics..

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication..

I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. The….

My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, a….

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me..

When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the ….

I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could..

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it ….

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you..

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and ….

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'.

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity..