Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.