I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

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.