There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

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

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.