It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

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.

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

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.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

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

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?