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So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.