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I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.