Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.
Rehearsals make a huge difference.
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.