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.

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

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

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