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I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.