I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil.

I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.