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I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

I grew up listening to old soul.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.