I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.