I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.
I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay.
Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.
When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.
People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.