It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

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

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

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.