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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don't even notice.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.