When I am writing, I try and set the mood in my studio so that I go into kind of a trance when I am writing a tune, and it all get’s kind of mystical. I might light some candles or do whatever it takes to go into that “other world.” When I am in front of a mic with headphones on mumbling out the lyrics to the track I am definitely on Mars, usually with my eyes closed going onto deep space nine. The songs that I actually like that I have written usually come in about 10 minutes complete when I am floating untethered in outer space.

Then, when I have the mysterious part captured, I will spend about 2 days tweaking it, and there could be hundreds of small changes. Once in a blue moon, there are none.