I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

We went in the studio ... to make music. And I think Neil liked that. When he came down to play on one song, he stayed roughly for about three months.

He would often play a piece of music just before a take to set the mood.