I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.
I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I was asked if I wanted to do a Talking Heads album back in the late '70s, early '80s, and I was already working on a different project and didn't have time, so I never got the opportunity to work with them.
I didn't quit Slipknot. I would never have quit Slipknot, ever.
I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.
I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.
In the early Nineties, after my first round of financial problems, I started a studio in Kensal Road in London right at the time when no record company wanted to hear anything from Leo Sayer.
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
My favorite thing to hear is when people will come up and be like, 'I started an a capella group at my school!' or 'I got my best friend, and we wanted to sing, too!' And then they start groups.
I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn't work out. I didn't have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.
We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.
I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.
I was planning to go into the studio in the summer of 2018, and then I started two bands!
I've been part of five different bands in my time.
I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
