I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.
Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.
it´s just. . . today has really sucked, and when you´re around stuff doesn´t seem so crappy - Will
Your life can not be all about stuff that you love or even like. Your life is going to be about ups and downs and that is just part of the journey.
It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is like Thelonius Monk or John Coltrane, where it's a listening experience. So that's what I like; I like to make stuff that you listen to. It's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. That's why you sit and listen to jazz. You dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. I think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.
Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television. . . I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
Voice-over stuff is so much fun because you don't have hair and makeup and wardrobe. You get to show up. And there were some talented people, and we don't even know them. And they're so gifted. They can do all these accents and voices. It's really fun to do that stuff. It's really like actor camp.
I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.
When you have a big heart and big stuff, anything is possible.
My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.
I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.
Generally, it's all of this subconscious stuff. I didn't even know what Lizzobangers was about until it was mastered and I got to listen to it.
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.