I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fresh. But if it's not that, if the story is not what you get into, maybe it's the crowd response. You hit the first chords of 'She's In Love With The Boy' and 20,000 people start to scream, you're pretty motivated. You get what you need. And it's a great story. It works.

I don't interest myself that much.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.