You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.

The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.

I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a good way to do things because if you're gonna do something, you'd better make sure you do it well.