I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.
Static-X had a great run. We did everything we wanted to do and everyone wanted to do their own thing for a while.
I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.
A good bassist determines the direction of any band.
Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole.
I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do.
