I was doing stand-up at the Improv and when the host introduces you, 'OK, the next comedian, you've seen him on 'Silicon Valley.' People always clap. They really watch the show and they are fans of it. And then they said, 'You are also going to see him in 'Crazy Rich Asians,' and I did not expect this, but the applause was even louder.

I obeyed my parents' rules inside our Chinese household while I pursued my dreams in the American world outside.

For once in my life, I wanted to flaunt my Asian side instead of hiding it to fit as somebody else... 'Crazy Rich Asians' made me want to get in touch with my roots, instead of running away from them.

Mother always tries to buy things for a reasonable price. I was never allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it's rooted in the Chinese mentality. We are very thrifty.

I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop.

I don't read in Chinese very well. Google Translate helps with that. It's cool that I can upload a photo and translate the text from it.

I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.

I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.

That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it.

I remember the first couple of TV things I did, I was really nervous.

I was actually fairly athletic and coordinated, but I never played any organized sports.

Nate Dogg is my favorite artist. I cried more when he passed than when Michael Jackson did.

With a lot of pop music, they just have one song and a good beat, but there's not necessarily that much talent.

It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind it.

I was first introduced to Kiesza when I saw her perform 'Hideaway' on Jimmy Kimmel's show. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.

When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want to be an actor, I don't just want to be an Asian actor necessarily.

Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.

When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time - I feel like that's when I 'Americaned.'

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

Look, to be honest, when certain movies like 'Ninja Assassin' came out, that had a sexy, sexy Asian man with a six-pack, that made some people think, 'Maybe I should go out there and date an Asian dude.' And that did pretty good for us in a way of representation.

I'm just a quirky, funny dude.

Maybe my job on this planet is to make the Asian accent sexy.

When a Spanish actor does an accent, that's sexy. When Peter Sellers did a French accent in 'Pink Panther,' that's funny - he got nominated for a Golden Globe. How come whenever an Asian actor does an accent, he's stereotyping?

The great thing about the comedy world is that everybody is somewhat of an outsider. That's the community where outsiders feel like they're insiders.

When 'Chappelle's Show' came out, if you didn't watch it on Wednesday night, you had nothing to talk about in high school the next day.

I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was going to go down that path. I was an intern at Smith Barney.

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.

That's one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can't hear what's there properly.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.

John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.

Zeppelin vinyl is quite revered in audiophile circles.

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into Olympic Studios to record the first album, and then going to America, which we crack open like a nut with the debut record - all that happened, literally, within months.

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.

The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swagger. I'm afraid I've got to say it, but it's the sort of thing that is so apparent when you hear 'Rumble' by Link Wray - it's just total attitude, isn't it?

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it's not. It's airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don't get off on that part of it at all.