Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.
I've been watching some film, understanding what I can work on, what I can get better at.
Music gives 'wings' to words.
You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.
Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.
If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do.
I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.
You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.
All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer.
I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing.
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
'Drip or Drown 2' is more me, more songs. I enhanced it more, even with the cover itself.
People come with the record done but just need a little more sauce on top. That's what I'm good at.
