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

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. 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.

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

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.