Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create really boring, frustrated human beings, then yeah, cut out art and science.
Reggie WattsI was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
Reggie WattsBeing 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.
Reggie WattsI like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.
Reggie WattsWhen I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
Reggie WattsI think it's important as a performer, no matter where I travel, if I run into someone at the airport or I'm having a conversation on an airplane, run into someone on the sidewalk, or you're waiting on a long line and you start talking to somebody, who doesn't really share a lot of your same views, but then you come to commonality, I think that's very very important as well.
Reggie Watts