Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

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.