Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.