But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.