I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

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.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

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

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.