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I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

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.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

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.

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.