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Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.

What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and we'll help you.' I think that's the most beautiful prize I've ever heard of.

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.