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.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

I didn't want to do something typical.