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Fail Quietly

Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com spoke to Todd, and asked what was next: 'Another visitation from Rundgren's pop past wrapped in today's headlines, perhaps?'

"I don't know exactly. Liars and Arena, despite being very different records, were pretty close to what I was going for. So I have no complaints there.

"I guess I may run into a wall if I devise some challenge for myself that I can't meet. But I wouldn't let anybody know about it if that happened. I would just fail quietly and then move on to something else."
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