I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. ….

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise.….

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart f….

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jon….

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines ….

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just fre….

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and ….

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them..

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff….

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types..