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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'