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

You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

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.

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

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.