That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

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.

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.