Whats going on in “Pinocchio?
” When I wrote “Pinocchio,” I first got this image of a guy in a mirror and his face looked like one of the characters in Where the Wild Things Are for some reason. He had a big mouth with a lot of teeth. He’s got on a suit and he’s greasing his hair back. He’s fixing his eyebrows and he’s got a big grin on his face getting ready to see this woman that he really adores. But, this guy actually eats women! He’s trying to get through this one date without eating this girl because he really likes her. He ends up doing it at the end because he cannot stop eating women. That’s a pretty crazy story. I didn’t really write that song about me, but as I thought about it, he started to sound exactly like me. I can’t keep women off of my tongue [Laughs]. Not eating women like a cannibal, but really eating women—cunnilingus [Laughs]. I was like, “Wow, that sounds like my life,” and I didn’t mean to do it. It’s just me writing what I know and what I feel. I sat down and thought it would be my imagina
