Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.