There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.
I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.
All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.
My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.
And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.
I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
El arte es la naturaleza vista a traves de una personalidad
