The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

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 think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

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 grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.