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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

We want to connect all these musical worlds together. We just improvise; we know straight away if its going to work or not. They're not covers - I hate the word cover. We do a transcription: mix it up, put our own spin on it. I think people will be surprised how powerful our show is.