No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.
Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.
I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.
It takes me ages to write stuff.
One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.
When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.
I don't let [my friends] visit me filming and I don't bring them to premieres. It's a different head zone - when I'm on set, I'm working. When I'm just with my friends, I can just hang out, do normal stuff and generally be a complete idiot. It's the same with everyone.
What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.
I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.
If the opportunity comes about that's right and it can be a smooth thing, yeah sure. But for the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.
I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.
Sometimes I just like to listen to unknown people, that can be really, really cool. I like going on blogs and stuff.
The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].
It's not about the big deal you struck that day, it's not about the new car, it's not about the obvious stuff. It's about that little introspective moment you had in the middle of all that. Those are moments between the moments, and that's where life is.
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing.
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.
It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.
I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.
When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that.
We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.
