Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. 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.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

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 didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

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

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.