I’ve worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn’t really attach the word ‘artist’ to their name.

I write all the time. I do artwork that’s part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it’s a good trade-off.

This is the fourth movie that I’ve done with this set of director-writers and I’ve learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

When I’m writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, “What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?”

When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn’t know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That’s where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I’ve made, and sometimes they’re fantastical.

To me I think artists in general make a statement – and for the rest of their lives – every album, every book – are variations on a theme.

If you’re in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don’t like your music to begin with.

TV series, there’s a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they’re on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows.