I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

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

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.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

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.