Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

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

To me, making records isn't work.

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.

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.

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

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.