Bonnaroo

I love performing at music festivals, that's always fun. I did this festival called Bonnaroo and it's really cool cause they have this indie rock stuff and like hippie stuff coming together. Like they had this weird hippie thing there called the ‘Sonic Forest’. And that was basically they had these poles set up and you'd slap the sides of the poles and the bells and whistles and lights would go off and they have thirty of them in this one area and that's the sonic forest. And I was like, “Man, how dumb are these hippies that they could be entertained by something so stupid?” (chuckles to himself) And then the last day there I ate mushrooms and then I was like “Sonic foressstt, I totally get you now!”(crazily slapping imaginary poles) And I slapped the shit out of those poles for like four hours because the sonic forest is the greatest idea ever.

I did a festival in Telluride, Colorado. It's a ski town, not a lot of minorities. And I was talking to this dude and he was like, “Hey man, before you go I gotta ask you one question, where are you from?” And I was like well, I'm from South Carolina but my parents are from India.” And he went, “WHAT! But you talk exactly like I do!” and I was like, “Well here's the thing, people come here from other countries and you know, they have children here and they grow up in the same society and sometimes they don't have accents. They're called immigrants.” And then I showed him a video of an Asian kid rapping and his head exploded.