I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

Be relentless and then you'll break through.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

Maybe I was little bit more aggressive than the average kid.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

I love showing my personality in my cooking.

Since I was a small child, I'd believed we were inherently perfect, and that we had to keep coming back again and again until we recognized our innate perfection.