South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

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.

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

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.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

Writing is the painting of the voice.

The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.

Celebrate each accomplishment on your way to reaching your goal. Each challenge conquered whether large or small is a positive step to greatness.

He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.