I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it.

If there was no Velvet Underground there would have been no such record. Does that tell you what you need to know?

First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.