I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.