I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'
We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.
I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.
I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.
I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.
After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.
