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Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.