Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

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.

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.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

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 perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

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