We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.

I just get my news from the Internet.

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

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