For years, you were working as a performer, doing stand-up comedy, but the work you did was often intentionally alienating. It’s not as if you’d been trying to do some mainstream thing. As a result, I imagine that the possibility of enormous success was not on your radar. So what did achieving success show you about the reality of what it can or can’t do for you? The best thing about success is that it leads to opportunity, because all I really care about is working on the next thing. Fame, on the other hand, I’m still coming to terms with. At the best of times, I’m a self-conscious person. It’s so funny: I look back on those early comedy days where I was performing this alienating style to comedy clubs up and down the country. I used to think: Why is no one getting this? This is the cusp of brilliance! In terms of myself, fame has led to a certain degree of discomfort in the way I go about my life. You always have to think about what you’re doing and where you’re going. I worry about people coming up to me. They’re almost like projections of my own fear. I’m just wired to think in an anxious way. I always think there’s something lurking that might be hard to deal with in a social situation.