Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.
I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.
Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it.
I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna say anything yet because I don't know and it's too early] is a place in the weird town that I'm trying to create and its Cry Baby's perspective throughout this album. You're not learning about her, you're learning about the place that she's in and her perspective. Down the line for sure I will think of other characters in this world.
A lot of the inspiration for my album 'Rules' was the cheekiness of Aqua.
After bands become successful, they always make that choice to do the record about how cool or how hard it is to be in a successful band.
I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.
Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.
When you're doing a concept album, it's easy. It's like a movie: you already know what you're dealing with.
I remember thinking that 'Earthworms' wasn't really an 'album' to me, only because it felt like a weird collection of songs more than an actual project.
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
When you're putting together a concept album, it's all about the flow and the story.
To me, 'Crash Love' is the most stripped-down record that we've made since the early Nineties, and I would say that 'I Hope You Suffer' is indicative of the overall tone of this record in being the opposite of that.
When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, then you follow through with that.
So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.
It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that
When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.
To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.
'You Should Be Here' set the tone that, 'Alright everybody, I want you to listen to this album.
I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].
