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I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.