It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

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.

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.