I don't need a man. I'm really happy with myself and being with my friends.
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original. . . and the rest are generally following on, copying.
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.