To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

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.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

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

With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.

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