I’m sure the music is going to come out. I’m not sure if I’m going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There’s only so much you can do with one record.
I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?
There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don’t go to them as an example of great production.
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I’m writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.
Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.
There’s some quality you get when you’re not totally comfortable. When you’re not doing what you’re used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
I would love to do an electronic record. There’s just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
I didn’t even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.
I’m more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I’ve worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.
I’ve done so many albums where I’ve been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It’s a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I’m trying to do myself.
When you say ‘state’ you mean ‘national.’ National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They’ve changed the name.
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I’m satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
I didn’t want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.
It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It’s like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.