Quotes from Bo Burnham

Music is really, really mathematical.

I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.

I really like maths.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I really like The Beatles.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

I just like to write and then perform.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

Please don't stick with me if I start sucking.

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.

I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.

Where are all the sour patch parents?

Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it's really fun to do and Oprah's on it.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.