We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.

We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.

Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

I wrote for this sketch group called Olde English for about six years and we made a movie together, but we sort of stopped making sketches.

I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.

I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.

I am not an educator and I'm not a journalist. I am a comedian. But I do truly believe that the point of comedy is to make the world around one better.

Growing up as a comedian the most influential person on me was Jon Stewart. He showed that comedy could have a real tangible effect on the world. He showed that comedy could move the needle of society and that a comic can do real things and make a real contribution.