I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

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.

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.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"

When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.