“When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredib...” — Ira Glass Quote

“When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.”

“I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.”

“I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.”

“I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.”

“Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.”

“In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to a paycheck than in doing work they can be proud of.”