For the last several years Earth has behaved well.

If you don't get all the clocks synchronized when the leap second occurs -- you could have potentially interesting effects. The Internet could stop working, cell phones could go out.

For most people, you think of a second, you think of one-Mississippi. But a lot can happen in one-Mississippi.

They had state people out here monitoring, but nothing got done until we made those calls to Civil Defense yesterday, so it's frustrating.

We're very grateful that they're finally getting it cleaned out.

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.