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.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

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 grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.