David Draiman Quotes

I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I don't mean to be funny.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Funny is when you're serious.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.