It took me THREE WEEKS to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write SOMETHING blue and Paul Whiteman INSPIRED.

My relationship with Paris began when I was working for Cerruti in the mid-1960s. When there was an important EVENT in his store, Nino Cerruti very kindly took me with him. I was FASCINATED, and the CITY MADE a big impression on me.

I didn't realize I WANTED to write about D.C. until after 2000. EVEN though I was a COMEDY writer, I stayed away from that subject on PURPOSE. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

There might have been a POINT in my career where, because people have been TELLING me I'm an ACTIVIST, I TOOK on that LABEL. But in retrospect, I don't think that's what I am - or what I've been - just because I'm vocal about my identity sometimes.

We TOOK the INSURANCE COMPANIES out of the DRIVER's SEAT.

I grew up in WEST Palm Beach, FLORIDA. My dad TOOK me HUNTING, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.

'Swagger' WOULD be the WORD for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the REAL funky drum loop and the ganjo ROLLING down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and STEEL, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop.

I've ALWAYS been BETTER at informing the audience through images than through words, but I TOOK on a SCRIPT that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

We TOOK 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere ELSE because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter FANS were GOING CRAZY about it.

I'm probably not GOING to GET married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these PEOPLE (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the BALLS that Romeo did.

I often COMPARE OPEN source to science. To where science TOOK this WHOLE notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible ADVANCES that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

'I DRINK' TOOK me TWO YEARS to WRITE.

If your BANK TOOK bailout money, take your money out of that bank and PUT it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the PEOPLE who have their money in the credit union.