After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.

Lice don't seem so small when they get in your hair.

Small things amuse small minds.