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I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.