I Used To Be A Serious Sneaker

My Grandmother Always Used To Wear This English Perfume Called Tuberose And Then She Died And Then I Dated This Girl Who Wore The Same Thing. Every Time I Hung Out With Her, I Could Only Think Of My Recently Deceased Grandmother. So Sometimes A Signature Scent Can Be Good And Sometimes It Can Be Bad.

I Mean, My Wife Is Always Like - I Don't Write Lyrics. So I Couldn't, Like, Really Technically Write A Song For Anyone. I Could Write A Very Nice Instrumental. So She Always Sort Of Gives Me A Hard Time Because It's Just Such A Ridiculously Impossible Standard To Live Up To, That Your Step-dad Wrote That Song For Your Mom.

I Really Love Something About Being Around The Recording Studios - You Know, Like, Those Days In The '80s They'd Be, Like, In The Studio 'til 4, 5, 6 In The Morning Working On These Songs.

Then, You Know, The Other More-traditional Role Of The Producer In, Like, The Kind Of Quincy Jones Sense Is Kind Of Part Arranger. So You're Coming Up With, Like, These - You Hear These Songs That Are Quite Bare-bones, And You Dream Up What's The Band Doing? What's The Rhythm Section Doing? What's The Guitars, Strings, Pianos - That Sort Of Thing. It's Almost Like A Little Toolbox.

I Think, You Know, For Me, Whatever I Need To Slot Into To Make That Music The Best It Can Be Or Help The Artists, Or Whoever I'm Working With, Achieve Whatever Vision They Have In Their Head For A Song.