Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do.

The identity of each band is what's important for me production-wise.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.

With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

I don't think anybody really super-consciously tries to develop a style to play.

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.

I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

Most bands play one style of song. If you listen to Metallica it all sounds exactly like Metallica, and if you listen to Black Sabbath it all sounds like Black Sabbath. I like AC/DC a lot but you can pick those sounds out on the radio in a heartbeat because they all have certain things in common.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction.

What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.

I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

Each album always has its own sound.

I think Young Thug has such a weird style I love, especially the things he does with his voice. It just sounds different.