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

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

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

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.

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

When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?"

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.