You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

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.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.