(I shoulda thought to check that .. Duh.) One of my favs/his voice too:
it always seems that he's talking just casually (sure.. just like Sergei Nakariakov playing the Variations on a Rococo Theme ... "effortlessly".

This must mean: he speaks poetry.

My association with the roller coaster "loosenings" was:
The movie Bedazzled, wherein the dapper Satan character, while carrying on a conversation (in company with his latest Signee [a Wish for a Soul] is opening LP record envelopes, scratching the surface and putting them back.

Just as we always thought.