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.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

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.