I didn't want to do something typical.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

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

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

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.

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

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.