I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
I don't have too many plans filled out. I know I want to keep doing more music. I've got a couple of albums worth of songs I'd like to put it out there. As far as movies, I just want to continue how I've been doing it: working with terrific people is certainly on my agenda, and then doing stories that interest me.
I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.