Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
Rihanna is so into rock, and she gives me an empty canvas to work with. I get to do wild solos and crunch up the rhythms. It's rock, it's R&B, it's hip-hop, it's funky - all totally up my alley.
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.
Yeah, I've always wondered what it would be like to make music that's not nostalgic at all, and it's really, really hard for me to imagine.
The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.
Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.
I don't use conventional voices for my compositions.
In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.
