That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.