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

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

We're all just memories of our future selves.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.

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.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.