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.

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.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

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

The limitations are limitless.