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The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
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Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.
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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
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When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
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I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?
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As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
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I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.
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I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
