Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

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

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

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

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

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

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.