I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.
I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.
With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, "Be good. " Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, "Help!"
When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.
I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.