I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

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

There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. Over the last 20 years, myself and a lot of other musicians my age have tried to discover things in 50s, 60s, and 70s recording techniques that were lost or discarded. We've all been trying to crack this code. It's been an important period in the last 15 years, reclaiming some of those lost approaches to making records.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

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