I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

Hal Sparks

It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

Hal Sparks

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Hal Sparks

It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

Hal Sparks

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

Hal Sparks

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

Hal Sparks

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Hal Sparks

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

Hal Sparks

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

Hal Sparks

Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

Hal Sparks

Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

Hal Sparks

I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

Hal Sparks

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

Hal Sparks

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

Hal Sparks

I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

Hal Sparks

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

Hal Sparks

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

Hal Sparks

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Hal Sparks

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

Hal Sparks

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

Hal Sparks

Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

Hal Sparks