My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

I was a bad boy as a child.

The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years

And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.

Can't one human being not like another human being? Can't we all just not get along?

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.