Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.

First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.

Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.