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Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.
I always wanted to be in this role, as a songwriter. In the Pumpkins, it was always impossible because Corgan would wake up and write five songs. He was so prolific, there wasn't a lot of room for anyone else.
The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.
Music is my life. It is sacred.
I take my craft very seriously.
What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it.
The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.
No one writes about the emotional things you go through.
If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.
At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.
I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
