I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

A real prison breakfast" I said.
"Yeah, but we are free."
And that summed it up.