There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

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

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

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

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.