A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.