The thing that's the biggest bummer about any live show is a hot, sober room. So if it's during the day and people are a little buzzed, great.

It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.

I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase.

I have what I guess is medically known as a farting problem.

Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.

Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen.

I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.

O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.

Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.