I Didn't Want To Do Something Typical.

I Didn't Want To Be On A Major Label. I Wanted All The Attention And The Noise To Go Away Because I Wanted To Be Something A Little Bit More Substantial.

It's So Easy To Criticize Your Own Time, And I See That As A Problem, Even For Myself, As A Listener.

There Are Plenty Of Minutemen. People Willing To Be Minutemen. Where Are The People That Want To Be George Washington? Where Are The Benjamin Franklins? Where Is Sam Adams? Where Is John Adams?

There Are Certain Records From The 80s And Early 90s That You Love Because The Songs Are Great, But You Don't Go To Them As An Example Of Great Production. Over The Last 20 Years, Myself And A Lot Of Other Musicians My Age Have Tried To Discover Things In 50s, 60s, And 70s Recording Techniques That Were Lost Or Discarded. We've All Been Trying To Crack This Code. It's Been An Important Period In The Last 15 Years, Reclaiming Some Of Those Lost Approaches To Making Records.

Technology Was Something I Avoided When I Started Out - I Didn't Even Have Electric Guitars. Only Played Acoustic. But After A While, I Realized That It's Important To Embrace Things That Are Available In Your Time, And Try To Do Something Different With Them.