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

As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

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.

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.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?