You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

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

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

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.