Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.

The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.