It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

Calling someone stupid for them not knowing something is wrong, you had to learn it from somewhere, idiot.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.