We plan ahead a lot and do a lot of the prep ahead of time. I've been writing a lot of production notes and changing them as we go.

On the Food Network cooking shows they have an entire staff to make all of this happen and it's great to know we're doing the same thing with just a few of us.

We want to make things that are impressive yet simple. We want people to know how to use ingredients in an easy everyday way.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately, disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts. All the leisure which his school life left him was passed in the company of subversive writers whose jibes and violence of speech set up a ferment in his brain before they passed out of it into his crude writings.

Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.