Today I begin a new life for I am the master of my abilities and today is going to be a great and beautiful day!
We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.
When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.
Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.
Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.
A lot of people around the world were, like, very frustrated, you know "Why don't you just release the name? Why is it taking so long?" But the cool thing is that it brought people together, like you said, it brought our fans into the experience, it sort of exposed us, exposed the process, and I think it welcomed Mike Magini, because people saw what happened to get to that point.
I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.
If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.
The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.
I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?