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.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

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

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 feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.