I've been watching some film, understanding what I can work on, what I can get better at.
Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.
Music gives 'wings' to words.
You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.
Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.
If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do.
I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.
All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer.
You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.
I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing.
'Drip or Drown 2' is more me, more songs. I enhanced it more, even with the cover itself.
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
People come with the record done but just need a little more sauce on top. That's what I'm good at.
