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

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

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

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

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

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.