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I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.