I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.
I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.
'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.
There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.
I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'
I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.
I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.
