As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

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

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.