I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

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

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

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

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.