I used to think that I should watch TV
I used to think that it was good for me
The recording part of music has gotten much cheaper.
People can record on their laptops.
They can edit and compose on their laptops.
And the quality is fine.
The means of production have been handed to the creators,
which is kind of wonderful,
but it means that there's a lot being created,
and not all of it is good.
And I would lose myself and it would set me free
The software that allows us to record on laptops
tends to encourage us to record in certain ways.
It tends to make the songs very regular, repeatable.
The tempos are usually very strict and steady,
which at some point in the past was an ideal, but it's not --
an absolutly steady tempo is maybe not the best thing in the world
So in some ways computers and technology push us in a certain direction,
and we have to know creatively when to resist that.