A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.