People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.

I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

I rarely assess live shows after I play them.

I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.