Music is very similar to comedy: It’s all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone’s onstage doing a solo, essentially it’s the same thing as what a comedian does. They’re in the moment. They’re listening. Reggie Watts Read Quote
I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew – I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively. Reggie Watts Read Quote
If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is. Reggie Watts Read Quote
I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question’s always been on my mind: ‘What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?’ In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I’m both. They’re just different modes of expression. Reggie Watts Read Quote
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it’s something I love. But if it’s something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I’m onstage, it comes out. Reggie Watts Read Quote
I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I’ve gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me. Reggie Watts Read Quote
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn’t like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music. Reggie Watts Read Quote
I have visualizations where I’m living in a really cool place – probably outside of town – with a really dope studio where I can record music or film things. Just have my own mini production house. That’s really the thing I’d love to end up with the most and only do gigs when I needed to and also amass a little bit of a crew around me. Reggie Watts Read Quote
I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life in a humorous way, the smaller the straw is that you’re looking at the map of life. You’re not looking at the whole picture. You can’t see the whole topography without it, and it can help you to make better choices. Reggie Watts Read Quote
As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. Reggie Watts Read Quote
