I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'

The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.