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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.