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 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.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

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

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.