There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

I didn't want to do something typical.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.