Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.
When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing.
I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.
To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.