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

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.

Choose your mutations carefully...

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.

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.

Will Arnett and I were never in the same room, but once I saw early animation we started writing music for that and then he just kind of did his little rap over top, some of it was free form and some of it I made up, we all just kind of contributed to it.