I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

They were marketing me as a teen idol when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway and we did a record and it got put out.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

With this CD technology you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15 recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and just technology for recording has gotten so good you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

Performance capture is a technology not a genre it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.