As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.