There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

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

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

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.

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

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.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.