My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

Technology changes nothing.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.