I make records with an open mind, I always have.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs.

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.