I am an extremist.

One of the better moments in life is when you get your own car.

When I was younger, I was angry. I was boisterous and loud. I was on top of the mountain, screaming at everybody, 'Look at me!' Now I'm more of a Taoist.

Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings.

I was never one of those fat-victim people. I always have to address how much weight I lost, and people always realize then how fat I was.

The weight loss came about because a buddy of mine who was diagnosed with diabetes because of his obesity told me that I was fat. And I started laughing, and he was like, 'No seriously, you're fat.' And I said, 'Oh wow, really.'

Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That's unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.

'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.

I always knew I was going to lose weight.

If you don't like your job, then change it by getting some better skills. Until then, shut up and get my burger with a smile, like in the commercials.

My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal with things as they are because crying about it isn't going to change anything.

I am frail like everyone else, and I take that into account when I talk about things.

My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point.

I'm a teacher and a philosopher by nature... In the end, I'm trying to teach people to live a better life. And if I can do that on top of entertain, then I leave the world a better place.

I never want to forget that my job is to make people laugh.

I have 11 sisters and 6 brothers.

I like to look in the crevices of things, the nooks and the crannies. I like to see the things other people don't see, don't want to look at.

I choose to live in a positive world and a positive presence.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

If you ain't laughing, you ain't living, baby.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.

It's a pleasure to be doing a show for Comedy Central. Traditional networks would cast me as the head of a household with 16 children, which I find extremely offensive because there are 18 kids in my family.

I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine. They say, 'I can't believe you talked about this - you're racist.' And I say, 'How can I be racist? Isn't racism exclusionary? If all of you are offended, that means I'm including every race in my jokes.'