What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.