Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make excuses for it. I suppose I romanticize my own life when I write. I always try to think whether it actually is quite romantic.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.

I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."