I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.

I think more people feel like they're outside of the mainstream these days - there's more people who are doing their own thing, feeling that it's not bad to be a weirdo and respecting other people's differences. And all that kind of goes into the big ol' B-52 philosophy.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

I wanted people to know that my grandmother was the reason why I did comedy in the first place. She pushed me to really get out there and pursue my dreams.

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.