The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.

I'm keeping in shape, you know, gotta look good for the ladies - and certain guys. Hey, I can't control who's looking. I just gotta bring the heat.

You'll get them tomorrow. You gave it a good shot. Keep your chin up.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

I belong to a gym now... well, let me rephrase that: I don't belong there at all, but I go.

I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.

It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

We can be born thus more than once

Just do it.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.