I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.

Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that.

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.