I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.