There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.