As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

I always composed music as a little kid.

What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

The things that are reflected back at us, often times, are appealing to a base instinct that's about response as opposed to reflection. So for me, it's important to turn on a piece of information that might interest people, you know, that might interest them in pursuing or researching maybe, or even just thinking about it in that moment as I'm performing it.

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.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.