I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.