He said all the right shit, so we gave him the record. They've got a thing going on there, and I dig it. Sometimes they come to me, which is always nice and flattering, and sometimes I need to pay to phone bill. You can stumble into something and find that you can contribute something that really lifts it up. It was fun for me to be able help lift those songs off the ground.
Cake is the same thing, but a little more mathematical.
John McCrea wants hooks that sound fractured, but at the same time, someone has to be able to whistle them. It's all about getting at what's inside his head. It was a lot of fun. People in Nashville are really nice. Everyone there has past, whereas in rock and roll, people kind of reinvent themselves and come out of nowhere.