Marc Maron

Because I was surrounded with all of it in that room.

And it was a magical place.

And at the beginning, when people would come to the house, they'd have to walk through my little, you know, 800, 900 square foot house with one bathroom.

This old 1923 Spanish bungalow house with a beat up garage out back.

And they'd have to walk through my entire being before they even got on the mic.

And all the sort of working through things with people and trying to...

Get connected initially with my community of comics who I thought I had alienated.

I thought I would.

But I always felt this way.

It turns out over time that you start to learn that, you know, only you feel that way.

It was like that moment in high school where where I spoke up and I did something that I thought was, you know, important and beautiful and honest.

And I and I felt nothing but ostracized.

I've always felt that way.

And I guess that is sort of an inverted grandiosity.

Like, you know, in the rooms, they call it the piece of shit at the center of the universe.

But it just wasn't really the case.

And over time, I realized, like, you know, I'm not that important.

I'm not that special.

I don't have that much of an impact.

And all these things that I was assuming were in my head.