A life lesson for me is how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks it's not the end of the world. It's cool it's fun it's exciting.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists different people my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative arty fun and cool.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration with technical savvy using cell phones and computers.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.