I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to say one. Certain things, like the first time you hear A Love Supreme, you're floored. It takes whatever you were listening to and blows a hole in it.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.