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I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.