If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to. . . if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that. . . the music too.
This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth. ' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.
I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.
The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
We are all just a work in progress.
No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play
In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.