It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.

It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.

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.

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

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.

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