Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.