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It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.