Q: How do you arrange and perform "vocals day"? Seems through the latent writing process along with other issues that I expect occur to reach the perfection of the instrument tracks.  But the emotion and inflection is always so perfect as well.  I'm thinking of the example "textin' on my iphone" but all your songs would qualify.  It seems unfakeable, so how to you keep the emotion present while recording?  Or is your process actually pretty quick and painless, so that by vocals you're still just excited from how it's all coming together?
A: you always want it to be quick and painless, but ever since the technology has been invented to do it as many times as you want, and even piece together, i'm afraid almost zero people on the planet ever have quick and painless experiences any more. one of the very few tricks that does seem to work, if you can do something along the lines of convincing yourself that you have a very short time limit on the recording session. very scary but thrilling, and produces the best results i think. it's just as well, because your voice will wear out if you hammer it for too long on one session. another trick i should mention is try to do it bad