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"It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in."
"Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh."
"I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist."
"If it's physical pain, you just deal with it the best way you can. But if it's more emotional, I don't know. I just try my best to feel it, take it in, and just allow myself to go through whatever may actually come from it. And then a certain amount of it, you can use to transform it through art, which is the healthy way of dealing with it, as well."
"Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision."
"The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them."
"In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most important factors for the human brain developing. Even more so than any other fields, because music covers mathematics, cognitive reasoning, motor skills, coordination, like, it's kind of everything."
"I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had."
"I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen."
"I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music."
"I don't have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range."
"I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out."
"What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg."
"There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways."
"I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something."
"I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars."
"There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ideas."
"I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level."
"I'm just kind of interested in focusing on what I'm interested in and just kind of solidifying it, or at least experimenting, or actualizing some of the experiments that I've had in my head for years, either filmicly or with audio."
"Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination."