Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
The space genre is timeless.
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.
The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
I can ask for cigarettes in every language
The trick to taking the paper off the crayons...is to just do it. There is no trick.
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
It has a really timeless feel.
I think people are intolerant of artists.
My voice is an instrument.
I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.
I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
