Adam Jones Quotes

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

I think a truly fantastic video is worth it. We spend so much time on the music, it only makes sense to have a really well-done visual translation of that music.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the same vibe as the 'Buddy Holly' video in that you just knew it was going to work.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do in our lives in the videos.

'Phase' is a special song to me, and I wanted the video to make you feel like you are on a journey with me. My team and I shot this video three different times, and every time I got it back, I wanted to go a step further.

While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

There is a whole team behind the success of a film song.

When I did 'Happy Birthday,' I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.

My least favorite thing about being in a band is photo shoots and video shoots. I like writing songs.

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and energy and self discipline into creating that kind of thing.

We put our music together, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle.

When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know?