“If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do...” — Joey Skaggs Quote

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

The media's job is to question a premise.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.

If a team-mate is an introvert, he is unlikely to bear the brunt of the ribbing. It would be the same if a player was gay. Gentle teasing might be as far as it went. Anything else would be bullying and team-mates would step in and stop it. That's how it works.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.