I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

We thought about just doing a series of songs on Lincoln's life, but that might be kind of boring and there's almost too much ground to cover. With this, we can keep it at April 1865.

This condition measured the quality of the songs and allowed us to see what outcome would result in the absence of social influence.

I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.

The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.