Charlie Day

I probably have one lying around.

I don't know where the violin thing came.

There you go, buddy.

You have that ready to go?

No, I never played the violin.

Oh, so that was not true.

No, I think I played the violin from like three to four.

three in one month, you know, where my parents were like, well, this is too young.

I don't excel at any of them, but I can play a little piano and a little guitar.

I can write like a goofy song that we put on Sonny, but I'm

Yes, I took piano lessons maybe until I was 10, and then I switched to the trombone.

I used to have a little sweatshirt because I was in the school band that said Charlie Trombone.

So that, like, became my nickname for too long.

It's a big part of how I write something.

I'll be just listening to, you know, a style of music and I'll have an idea.

Yeah, I'll be listening to Depeche Mode and I'll be thinking, I got to do a movie with Bateman where he, you know, wears eyeshadow and trench coats.

Yeah.

True story.

Because my parents both met at Columbia, where they were both music, getting their doctorates in musicology.

Yeah.