I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

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

I 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.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

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

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.

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.