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.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.