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

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

Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.

I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.

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.

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.

It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.