As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, 'No! No! This wasn't what it was supposed to be about, people!' Then if there's a Santa at the mall, I walk up to him and say, 'Listen, fat man, you're just a clown at my birthday party.'

As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.