Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

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

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.

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.