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

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

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.