If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.
Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.
I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.