I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.

I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.