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

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

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.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

I didn't want to do something typical.