Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Kyle Gass

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

I can't be serious, apparently.

A friend is someone who can help you with your career.

Rosemary's Baby' is one of my faves.

You know, I come from an acting background.

Probably every band - you get back to like, The Stones are kind of the tough guys, Beatles are kind of psychedelic, Led Zeppelin was kinda mystical, The Who are kind of mods. You know, you just go right through. Everyone's kind of adopted their so-called persona or flavor if you will.

I've never been married, but I'm imagining what it's like: Sometimes Jack snores, and I get to poke him.

Jack has two boys, and when they grow up they're gonna wanna be like the D. I've already got the name: Mini D.

You can't pick your fans.

I don't think we've ever been in an interview where someone hasn't asked, 'How did you guys get together?'

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

I've got the country station on my radio.

Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.

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

It's not easy putting on a festival, there's a lot of moving parts.

Well, here's my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don't have it going on too much, you're probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you're going for a bold statement, you're going for a high concept.

I like Popsicles!

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I wanted to be an actor. Music was a side project.

I feel good with a crisp hundy in my pocket.

Well, I think awards are pretty meaningless.

I'd like to do a complete album of covers with no songs written after 1937.

I like butter with my popcorn.

People used to think, because of our name, that we were a hip-hop group.

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

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

I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.

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.

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 don't like to audition. I just want people to give me parts.

I don't keep up with music.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

Whenever I see a girl in tie dye twirling, I'll say yes. I've arrived. I'm in the right place.

Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I think there was a big hip-hop takeover, and pop music, it became mechanical and computer-y.

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.

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

When Jack Black and I started Tenacious D, there were about two seconds in the beginning when we thought maybe we'd have a go at serious music. But we quickly abandoned that when we realized that everything we did tended to come out funny.

We used to hang out in my studio apartment, play music and dream about being rock stars.

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?'

We're not really band guys. We're shlumpy guys. We don't look like rock stars.

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

And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.

The problem is that we set the bar so high, and our stuff is so good, it's tough to top.

It's always fun to play the hometown.

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

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

Usually I feel kind-of normal and lame, and then I'll go to the coffee shop and someone'll say, 'You rock!' And then I'll remember how awesome I am.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

We're the court jesters of rock.

Jack is a special performer, the kind that comes along once in a generation.

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.

I'd say that acting is a side project for Jack.

We want to be just like the greatest band. But I think we're just sort of both naturally humorous fellas.

We're like a rogue satellite circling the comedy universe.

I fantasized that I went to art school with the Beatles.

I think that I've been living on my laurels.

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.

Bo Burnham is great, he's a genius.