Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it.

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.