I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

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.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

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

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.