As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

The great fact is that the source of all you desire comes from within! The answers to these needs will be found within you.

What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays.