We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.
I'm trying my best to keep things exactly the same. Spotify hasn't changed my process other than doubling up. We do twice a week now.
The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.
I hear a lot of people saying my stuff sounds the same. When you're in my position, people come to you to give them the same sound in a different type of way.
With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always, 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.
As a fan of music, I don't like that artists release one body of music a year and then disappear because it's hard to relate to that. I wanted to be able to bring my fans along on my journey and have them really feel like they're living my life with me.
There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.
We've put out records that consistently have been what the fans have been looking for from Disturbed. We've been consistent with our live performances. As long as we continue to maintain that level of trust with our fanbase, I think they'll still be there.
If you listen to five nights of Led Zeppelin back to back they are all different.
Any time you sit out, it could throw off your rhythm a little bit, and I'm kind of a rhythm player.
Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
