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"In the past, I was definitely more apt to storing pain away and not worrying about it. But as I get older, it's really about figuring out how to process it, how to feel it, and then also how to use it in my art."
"The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid."
"Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening."
"I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority."
"The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with."
"Good comedians are great philosophers."
"One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers."
"Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke."
"If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal."
"Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really."
"Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create really boring, frustrated human beings, then yeah, cut out art and science."
"As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time."
"I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am."
"When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose."
"I think it's important as a performer, no matter where I travel, if I run into someone at the airport or I'm having a conversation on an airplane, run into someone on the sidewalk, or you're waiting on a long line and you start talking to somebody, who doesn't really share a lot of your same views, but then you come to commonality, I think that's very very important as well."
"I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever."
"I just think that life is a constant experiment."
"When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere."
"Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays."
"I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing."