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I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

I take comedy very seriously, and I feel very competitive.

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 are people like me who just perform for my parents.

It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage.

I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.