When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.