I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

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

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

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.

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