I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

I didn't want to do something typical.

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

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 are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.