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 don't want to rewrite history.

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.

Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.