I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

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

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.

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.

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