Technology was something I avoided when I started out – I didn’t even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
I’m always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can’t escape the fact that it’s all going to be digitized and reduced.
I do think music sounds better when it’s on tape and more simply recorded.
I’ve been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that’s conducive to the enjoyment of music.
As music becomes more computer-based, it’s lost some emotional impact.
When I pull out vinyl – which isn’t that often anymore – it’s undeniable that I get a different feeling. There’s a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn’t happen with music playing off the computer.
It’s hard to make music knowing that it’s not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.
There are people who’ve prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They’re so good at it and they obviously love it. I’m just happy to be making a record.
I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.
It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that’s overcompressed that shouldn’t be.
It’s so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.
There are a lot of technical studio things I’ve learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they’re doing.
I’ve said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.
There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.
The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
Besides, life isn’t meant to be safe. It’s only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.
Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.