That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.
I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.
We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording.
I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.
I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.
I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.
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I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.
The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.
It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.
The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.
I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
