I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

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

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

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

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.

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.