I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat – in honor of my father – when I’m impatient. It’s very charming.

My dad has some depressive issues, and he’s really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say things that are not super supportive. Like once I did a set, and he says, ‘Sheesh, no wonder...

My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn’t worry too much about...

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

My mom doesn’t post on Facebook, but she’ll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.

I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you’re cold, or that you’re suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things...

I sleep hard; I dream harder!

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It’s like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I’m doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

I’ve been stopped a few times by people who want to say, ‘Hi.’ But I’m an introverted person, and the idea that I’d have to talk to people all the time seems a little overwhelming.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

I think you can lose yourself in any creative activity – if you enjoy your job or enjoy a task, you can lose yourself in that.

The Internet makes everything much less mysterious.

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There’s something about acting like I don’t care, or if I act like...

People get really irritated by mental illness.

I’m not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don’t have that personality.

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren’t as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God’s sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude – which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled...

When I’m up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that’s been said to me.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that’s why they make fun of things all of the time.

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I’m checking it all day I start...

I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions… There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there...

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

I have a comic character – my sister said that I’m the victim of every joke I tell.

It’s always the compliments from people you love that mean so much.

I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn’t talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It’s a completely...

I think the Internet has made it easier for people to connect with things that they really like, as well as provide a more personal experience, of ‘I found this!’ and then you can pass...

The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they’ll manifest. I’ve done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.

I’m sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I’m following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg – just to see where...

I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone’s listening.

I’ve learned from my pets that it’s okay to sit around, and people don’t love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, ‘cos they always...

I thought that when you have more success that you’d feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, ‘Now people are expecting...

In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don’t get to spend that much time together because we’ve got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we...

I have a hard time with interviews, because I’d rather hear about the interviewer.

I’d like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn’t have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody’s schizophrenic they’ve lost all their teeth.

My dad actually had business cards made up with my sister’s website and my website and all of our information. And he hands them out to people he meets.

My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. ‘Hey, listen, how’s your plane? Did you land? Are you landing? Sweetie. Listen. We want to… ‘ The...