I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.
I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.
There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.
I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.
I've performed in basements and at supermarkets. The crowd would be yelling and throwing things at you.
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.
I've had some of my best matches in front of 50 people in bingo halls and VFW halls and things like that.
I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter the bar. That's the beautiful thing about it; it's for everybody.
At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.
There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.
I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'
No space should be safe from theatre.
I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.
