Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

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.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.