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A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.