Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

I don't actually like touring.

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.