I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.