Kyle Gass

“I've got the country station on my radio.”

“Bo Burnham is great, he's a genius.”

“I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.”

“And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.”

“We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.”

“We're actually more popular in the U.K.; they really get us, and in Australia. In the non-English speaking countries, they don't really get it.”

“I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.”

“To me, comedy and music are not even really separate entities.”

“I'm doing this pilot called 'Demon.' Kevin Smith is directing it. It's a comedy drama. I play a guy who rises up from Hell.”

“Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.”

“Jack is really the new breed, a wild-man comedian. America's funnyman.”

“In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.”

“Jack appreciates people on a very, very sophisticated and deep level.”

“I still enjoy watching Jack perform after a gazillion years of watching him.”

“We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.”

“Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.”

“We feel more comfortable rocking a comedy room as opposed to laughing it up with a rock crowd.”

“Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'”

“I had a desperate need to be Van Gogh or something. Some tremendous artist. Jack's so successful, what's wrong with me, why isn't this working for me? I hated myself.”

“But the classic Tenacious D songwriting is Jack or myself will have an idea - I might have a riff - and we'll improv. And once Jack's feeling it, we turn on the tape recorder and start jamming, improv on that riff, improv on those lyrics, and then go back and see if there's anything good in there.”