I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

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

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

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