[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

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

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.