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I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!

I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with.