"Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them."
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"A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision."
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"You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener."
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"I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice."
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"I always composed music as a little kid."
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"I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano."
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"When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity."
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"An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence."
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"As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots."
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"I want to be able to make a movie."
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"If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it."
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"When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true."
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"Im pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun."
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"I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic."
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"My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a car in high school, so I loved the idea that I could mimic this lifestyle."
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"Everyone speaks stupid."
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"I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere."
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