And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

I would vote for a Mormon.

We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.