Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.