Todd Barry

“I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.”

“You always think you're better than you are in the beginning.”

“I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.”

“My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.”

“I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.”

“If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.”

“Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.”

“I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage.”

“I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.”

“It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me.”

“Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.”

“And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.”

“There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.”

“I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.”

“People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.”

“I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.”

“I will not be misquoted!”

“Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.”

“I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.”

“I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.”