Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

Can clearly say Vegemite is horrible! Like tryin' new stuff though.