E:  Hello it's "E" from the Eels. Carry on
Q. Why change your name to "E"?
E:  I didn't change it, it changed me.
It's just a nickname I've had since a teenager and it's just gone too far, now
I'm a grown man and it's embarrassing. It's like what are the neighbourhood kids
suppose to call me now "Mr. E" you know.

Q. Are you the brains behind your video's?
E: Usually they are somebody else's ideas in the videos. I don't have a big
passion for that but I, just sift through a lot of people's ideas until we find
something good.

Q. Where were you when John Lennon was shot?
E: Well I was a suspect for a while so I was in gaol for a couple of hours, then
you know cos I happen to be reading the catcher near by and hmmm my lawyer told
me not to talk about this...

Q. What is the Eels orchestra 2000?
E: Well you know last year we were a 3 piece band and this year we have doubled
our numbers to 6 and it's all because butch our drummer had a crazy dream one
night. He ate this pizza, he doesn't sleep good after pizza and he had a little
orchestra, where we would play an overture of Eels songs at the beginning of the
concert and he called me the next morning and told me all about it and I said oh
we gotta do that and we do now. That's what's really fun making Butch's dream a
reality and we have been doing it all year.

Q: Are Adam Spencer and Butch the same person?
E: Butch is a very pretty, very pretty man a very good looking man it's hard for
anyone to measure up to butch.

Q. What do you think of "pop culture"?
E:  No there's no need for pop culture. I think we have all become emotionally
retarded from complete emersion in pop culture. You know it's gotten to the
point where we can't talk to each other unless we are always making some sort of
pop culture reference, that's the only way we can relate to each other any more.

Q. How do you audiences differ?
E: Well some places you go, somewhere like you play in London and their very
reserved and their very you know, they've seen it all before (action: E does a
demonstration of a British tight ass clap) and then they are like ok now show us
more. Then you go to somewhere like Paris and their just very passionate and
their are like (action: E starts to raise his arms and bow and claps madly while
chanting "oh yes ooh more please). You know they give a little more. I like
there should be an energy exchange you know between the band and the audience
and you go to somewhere like London and you feel like you are giving more than
your getting. You go to Paris and it's like their often giving more than we're
giving them and then we have to, it pushes us to you know give them more. It's
nice.

Q. How did the song "mr. E's beautiful blues" get on the soundtrack of "On the
Road"?
E: That is kind of a sore subject with me. I have never seen that movie and I
don't, it doesn't look like something I'd like and I don't. I was sort of forced
into it at gun point by the record company and I regret it all. I regret the
whole thing.

Q. Why is it a hidden track on "Daisies OF the Galaxy"?
E: The record had been done for a long time and I don't like records that have
too many songs, you know and the record company insisted that song be on the
record and so the only thing we could finally agree on is that it would be a
bonus thing cos to me it is really separate on the record, and I even called the
mastering lad at the last minute and snuck an extra 10 seconds of silence so
there would be 20 seconds before it comes on at the end of the record.

E: I'm E and you've been watching V
Now I'm gonna put my gum back in my mouth.........