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

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

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.

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.