Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

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

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.

Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

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

An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.