I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.