Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it..

The limitations are limitless..

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a st….

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be..

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conduciv….

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche..

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener..

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays..

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever e….

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years..

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by..

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need….

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got ….

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era..

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had….

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a….

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. I do thi….

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional..

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded..

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation..

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic..