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I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.