Show Business Is One Of The Few

When You Commit Your Life To Something And It Doesn't Work Out, It Is A Tough Place To Be. Suicide Can Be The Spiritual Reprieve Of A Faithless Person. I Knew I Could Always Just End It, And There Was Solace In That.

When I Was A Young Comic In New York And I Wasn't Getting Any Work, I Was Wandering Around The Lower East Side With My Notebook. I Would Stop At The Guitar Place On St. Mark's And Talk To That Dude For A While, Then I'd Go To The Bookstore And Talk To That Dude For A Little While. I Had A Guy Over At The Record Store, And I'd Talk To Him For A While. It Kept Me Connected To Life.

I Didn't Know That People Compared Bill Hicks And I But Certainly I'm Flattered If They Do. I Knew Bill A Bit. We Had Dinner A Couple Of Times And Played Guitar Together Once. I Really Tried To Keep My Distance From Him Professionally.

Because We're Comics And We Pass Each Other On Campus, We Know Of Each Other, And A Lot Of The Time There's A Mutual Respect There.

I'm Not A Narcissist, But I Definitely Have Gotten Enough Explosive Narcissistic Shrapnel From My Father. I'm Sort Of Wired That Way, But I Don't Feel That I'm Pathological, So All I Can Pull From Is My Own Existence And My Knowledge.