It was almost effortless. I remember going into this record not really having any fear at all. When we started making this record, I had to go through about 200 tapes. I narrowed it down to about 40 things that I considered really good. There's not a lot of time to write.
Sound check is the only logical time to create, and so everybody comes up with ideas.
His job wasn't to completely change it and make it his. I think he just pushed us further to find it in ourselves. It's all a matter of trust. We were relaxed. Then the pressure came, afterwards.