Bo Burnham

“I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.”

“Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.”

“I always think of myself as a comedy feeder type person, and that feeder lets themselves get out of your comfort zone as opposed to straight stand up; that feels like honing one skill, like...”

“I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.”

“I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.”

“At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridicul...”

“'what.' is bombastic introspection. It's large, colourful, and loud but hopefully intimate at the same time.”

“It feels like we're always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear.”

“I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so li...”

“I'd much rather wait till my material is up to par, in my opinion, than rush it just so I can stay in the limelight a little longer.”

“I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.”

“Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.”

“I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.”

“I really like maths.”

“I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.”

“I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.”

“At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are...”

“I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.”

“The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thi...”

“If I had posted my first video a week later, I don't know if it would have spread like it did. That's why, with everything I do, I try to enjoy the making of it instead of worrying about the...”