At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.

I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.

To me, making records isn't work.

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.