life because i was on this comedy trajectory, and i think i always thought i would leverage the reputation i had got. i always wanted to get back to acting and stuff, but i... i think i had basically gone, "0h, satire, that's obviously my thing." and obviously it was, i obviously had some propensity, but when matthew asked me to write matilda, not only did he get me to write it, but after my first drafts, one of the things he said to me is, "oh, this song here, you're kind of wink... "you're commenting, it's commenting on itself? it's very meta?" and i'm like, yeah, that's, i was born in 1975. we are the meta generation. it's all irony. you know, you're a step removed. you're commenting, right? and it's only got worse since that. he appealed to me to try and write less ironically, to not be, like, going, "oh, this is like a bit from les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..."