Though it sold very well, I hated "The Edge."

My whole act is confession.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Being emotional is normal? all part of the job.

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.