You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.
I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.
I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.
Classical music can be catchy, so can African instrumental guitar music. It's not just pop songs that are catchy. Rhythms can be catchy, too.
I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
'Silence Kid' starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It's funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren't skillful rock stars. Then it's spinning through a lot of hooks really fast, and all of a sudden, it's over.
