I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.

It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.