“I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.”

I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .

I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,

I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.

Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.

They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.

If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.

I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.

When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.

It’s not so much a question of whether we’ve shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.