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I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.

I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.