Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.