Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.

Being 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.

When in doubt, zoom out.

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

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.