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.

There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

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

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

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'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.