I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority..

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination..

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something..

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense..

We're all just memories of our future selves..

As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time..

Just remember, everything you are is..

I'm just kind of interested in focusing on what I'm interested in and just kind of solidifying it, or at least experimenting, or actualizing some of ….

Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a ma….

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or desi….

Good comedians are great philosophers..

The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remote….

I think it's important as a performer, no matter where I travel, if I run into someone at the airport or I'm having a conversation on an airplane, ru….

Everyone speaks stupid..

There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways..

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin..

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision..

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always….

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore..

There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ide….