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When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I used to think I actually was Batman.

This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

I wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child.

I was a tomboy.