I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.