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.

Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.

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

Good comedians are great philosophers.

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

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

I don't have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range.