Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.