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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 have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

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

I never - in my dreams, doing track in high school, I didn't imagine it would turn out like this.

Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

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

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.