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.

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.

I like visual imagery in my head.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.