It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

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 would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

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