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

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.

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.

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

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.