George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

