Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.
I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.
I played the flute in elementary school, but when I got into high school, they didn't have any flutes; they gave me a clarinet and said, 'Play it in the same way, just hold in a different position.' I really didn't care much for it.
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.
Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap.
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.
I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
Iowa,' for me, I hated doing that album - it wasn't a good experience for me.
I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.
