JOE WALLACE: You mentioned you've got some constraints on how you approach the material because you don't want to overwhelm the show. How has working like this improved your skills as a songwriter?

DAVE HUIZENGA: Well, it's good. That's a great question. It's made me realize the importance of, well, I think it's obvious to a pop songwriter in a way that the hook, a hook is a very important element to any successful pop song, but it's just given me the opportunity to realize that, you know...,

[DAVE HUIZENGA PLAYING A FEW SYNTH PASSAGES]

...that that can be a successful hook in this show. And so I think, if anything, it's just pulled me back. It's just given me the restraint that's necessary to take -- It's like I feel that there's an unending. I think in the early days I probably was concerned, when I got into -- when I left performing live, which thankfully I'm still doing again by the way and I love it, but there was that period when I stopped performing live and got into this and thought can this be -- Well two things. I thought, "Can this be as satisfying to me as being on stage and rocking?" you know, and having, you know, a thousand people in front of you and seeing that immediate response, which just, you know, gives you that satisfaction, you've done your job, you know. But I quickly learned that yes indeed.

You know, when we have screenings and I sit back, you know, it's not like a movie where I can go in the theater necessarily and catch the response of a sold out movie theater if I had scored a film because it's in people's homes. But when I complete this job here, we have our screenings and I see that I have effortlessly, or so I wanted to appear, integrated my soundtrack in there and helped tell the story, you know. It is as wonderful as a, you know, as a the live in its own way. [LAUGHING]

And then that second part of that question was just about creatively the songwriting opportunities or the capabilities. I mean I, when I first started, I thought, "Okay, I've got a great hook here and these first couple of episodes were good. Can I do this again?" you know. "Can I come up with something else?" you know, and I just didn't know. Well, the first season went by and sure enough, thanks to a lot of things I must say, the sounds inspire me. They really do. And, you know, again I have this one here. I just -- I could click on anything and get a bit of a -- Let's see here. We'll move over to my expand thing here.

[DAVE HUIZENGA PLAYING A FEW PASSAGES WITH DIGIDESIGN XPAND]

Maybe here.

[DAVE HUIZENGA PLAYING A FEW PASSAGES WITH DIGIDESIGN XPAND]

You know, today it's just there's so many -- I'm so grateful to these people for all the time and effort, especially like I say the Spectrasonics people, the time and effort they put into the things as a creative starting point, you know, a launch pad, and so with the help of all that, I'm not saying I could with an acoustic guitar sit down and have come up with 20 years worth of tunes, but it is amazing looking back that there's still -- I don't have that fear anymore. I can sleep at night knowing the next day yeah I'm going to come up with something. You know, it's I love it. I absolutely love what I do, so it's not a task. It's not a chore at all, you know. Something fresh is going to happen today. That's the way I like to think about it, you know. It does.