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.

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.

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

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

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

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.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.