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.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

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