As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

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 think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

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

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

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

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