With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

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.

There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. 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.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

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.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.