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 know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

You can't write if you can't relate.

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

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

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.