Bill Burr

You know, I'm not saying don't do that.

If you're a younger comic, you should definitely do that.

But I used to like, you sort of hoard every funny thing you said when you first start out.

And then after a while, you just kind of like that.

Whatever.

I can't remember.

I'll fucking think of something else.

It's almost like you got to be a little arrogant, if that makes sense.

I kind of learned that from watching musicians who every night they would play the same song, but they never played it the same way.

And they weren't recording it being like, okay, I got to play it that.

But with that little improvised thing I did, now that has to become a part of the song.

And I have to, you know, and then I can be back between my ears again, as opposed to just sort of letting it fucking fly.

So the way that they would do that, I was just like, I should be more like that.

When I was in high school, if I said something funny during lunch, I didn't think like, okay, I got to write that down.

I got to make sure I say that again.

Say that again at tomorrow's lunch.

And it's like, well, no, it's the same fucking crowd, so I couldn't.

I didn't worry about it, but no one was paying to see me eat fucking lunch.

Oh, you know something?

That's when the innocence goes.