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

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

If it's physical pain, you just deal with it the best way you can. But if it's more emotional, I don't know. I just try my best to feel it, take it in, and just allow myself to go through whatever may actually come from it. And then a certain amount of it, you can use to transform it through art, which is the healthy way of dealing with it, as well.

I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.

I want to be able to make a movie.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.