Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.