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drinking rocks play
It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.
artist style environment
As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
being-yourself thinking people
I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.
song technology guitar
The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.
believe acting actors
I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to me. I enjoy it. I am very confident in my work.
song artist stealing
You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
damn-you faces your-face
Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.
unique artist lucky
I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.
song character singing
Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.
people being-positive trying
People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.
cousin attitude interesting
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
nice thinking way
The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.
taken majority phrases
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
real thinking fake
What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.