I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.
In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.
When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
I really like working with different directors. It's really fun.
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
Sabrina ran for seven years with a different director every week.
My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.
I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.
I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there.
While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.
I like to consider myself an all-rounder, and I'm not trying to be King of the Scene or anything. I'd like to do everything, from writing film scores to producing pop albums.
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.
It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look.
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.
I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.
I'm a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.
I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
Sometimes I wake up, and I wear jeans; sometimes I want to wear khakis or full-on overalls.
There are different audiences out there, and everyone has different tastes of what they want. And it's a good thing because otherwise, there wouldn't be enough stuff to go around.
Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
