“I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.”

“I'm probably laughing at myself more than anyone is, because I'm around me all the time.”

“Every town you go to, they tell you what's special about their town. What they're number one at... This guy comes up and says, 'D'you know that we're the home of the world's largest frying pan?''...Really! That is great 'cause I'm writin' a new book called Things I Don't Care About.”

“You need to go sit on the pot.”

“Do not siphon gas with your mouth.”

“We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.”

“Father, we come to You, Father, in the name of the Father, Father we come to You, Father, Father, just, just, Father, Father...' You don't talk to you friends like that. 'Ed, Ed, come over, Ed, Ed, Ed, you are, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, ooh, Ed, Ed, Ed' - he wouldn't be your friend anymore if you did that! Like, 'You keep saying Ed...my name's Joe!”