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

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

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.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

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.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

I think it's important as a performer, no matter where I travel, if I run into someone at the airport or I'm having a conversation on an airplane, run into someone on the sidewalk, or you're waiting on a long line and you start talking to somebody, who doesn't really share a lot of your same views, but then you come to commonality, I think that's very very important as well.