Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
Perform as many times as you can in front of people you don't know.
I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.
It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.
One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!
I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.
Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.