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.

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.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

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.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.