I'm Not The Betting Kind.

I Really Believe People Should Be Paid For The Work That They Do.

So When The Book Came Out, My Mother Stunned Us All By Leaving My Father. I Think Three Months Before The Book Came Out, She Left My Father The Day He Retired From The Marine Corps. They Had A Parade And March, And She Came Home And Left.

I Was Thinking About Comedy And How Comedy In Many Ways Opens Us Up To Ideas And Really Being Influenced By Richard Pryor And Sort Of The Way He Would Use Comedy To Really Speak About Larger Social Issues.

Many Artists Use Their Own Lives As A Kind Of Case Study To Examine What It's Like To Be Human.

I Know That Everyone Who Listens To Radio Creates You In A Visual Image That They Need You To Have. Whatever That Is, I Thought, Let Them Have It. Let Me Be Who The Listener Needs Me To Be And Let Me Not Contradict That With The Reality Of My Photograph And Risk Disappointing Them.