When I left my parents’ home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told...

College kids, don’t be taking examples from me.

I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.

I have to give the SNL crew props – it cannot have been easy to work with me.

Doctors didn’t know what to do with me.

I’m not a doctor – so I can’t describe flashbacks well – but it is like you’re living it again.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I’ve learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

I belong to the Democratic Party.

I’ve seen the hell these people go through.

If you’re injured, it changes the way you move. If you’re injured, it changes the way you talk.

I don’t know if I want to be a big star though.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I’ll take it.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

I had a dad you know.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It’s incredible.

It can’t have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

I’ll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

It’s tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there’s someone out there who wants to kill you.

I’m not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.

I called my mother up and I said, ‘You know, I’ve been to the best doctors in the world and I’ve spent almost half a million dollars and they’re telling me I have symptoms of...

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.