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.
— Kyle Gass
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.
Jack appreciates people on a very, very sophisticated and deep level.
I'd like to do a complete album of covers with no songs written after 1937.
I wanted to be an actor. Music was a side project.
And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.
I think that I've been living on my laurels.
It's always fun to play the hometown.
Bo Burnham is great, he's a genius.
I don't think we've ever been in an interview where someone hasn't asked, 'How did you guys get together?'
The problem is that we set the bar so high, and our stuff is so good, it's tough to top.
Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.
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?'
Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.
Well, I think awards are pretty meaningless.
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.
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.
We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.
We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.
The wheels of Hollywood grind very slowly so I'm going to have some collagen or some sort of plastic surgery.
Jack is really the new breed, a wild-man comedian. America's funnyman.
We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.
We're not really band guys. We're shlumpy guys. We don't look like rock stars.
We want to be just like the greatest band. But I think we're just sort of both naturally humorous fellas.
What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.
It's not easy putting on a festival, there's a lot of moving parts.
We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.
Whenever I see a girl in tie dye twirling, I'll say yes. I've arrived. I'm in the right place.
People used to think, because of our name, that we were a hip-hop group.
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.
To me, comedy and music are not even really separate entities.
I've never been married, but I'm imagining what it's like: Sometimes Jack snores, and I get to poke him.
Rosemary's Baby' is one of my faves.
I'd say that acting is a side project for Jack.
We feel more comfortable rocking a comedy room as opposed to laughing it up with a rock crowd.
There doesn't seem to be a relationship between budget and comedy. In fact, it might be inverse.
I'd like to do a concept album, with the concept being about me.
I don't like to audition. I just want people to give me parts.
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're the court jesters of rock.
We used to hang out in my studio apartment, play music and dream about being rock stars.
You can't pick your fans.
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.
I like Popsicles!
Jack is a special performer, the kind that comes along once in a generation.
In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.
I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.
Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.
I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.
