I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

I do make a concscious effort to be genuine among other comedians. If I write something or try something that doesn't feel like me, I stop doing it.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Travel is not about money, it's about courage.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.