The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.