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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.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

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.

Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.

As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.

I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes - I find them all over the scores.