I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

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.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

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

I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

The production process has a great way of bringing songs to light and that's a big part of it.