Quotes from Kyle Gass

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

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

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

Well, I think awards are pretty meaningless.

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

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

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

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

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.

It's always fun to play the hometown.

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

I feel good with a crisp hundy in my pocket.

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

I like butter with my popcorn.

We feel more comfortable rocking a comedy room as opposed to laughing it up with a rock crowd.

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

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

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.

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

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.

The wheels of Hollywood grind very slowly so I'm going to have some collagen or some sort of plastic surgery.

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

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.

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