Kyle Gass

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?'

A friend is someone who can help you with your career.

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

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.

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.

I'd like to do a concept album, with the concept being about me.

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

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.

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

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