You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

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.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.