306 Quotes by Bo Burnham

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

I got a safe full of cherries 'cause I pop it and lock it.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.