Quotes from Kyle Gass

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'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.

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

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

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

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

I don't think us going out in the crowd would be a good idea. I think that we'd be torn apart limb from limb.

I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious singer-songwriter mentality.

There doesn't seem to be a relationship between budget and comedy. In fact, it might be inverse.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?'

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've got the country station on my radio.

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

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