What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
We have a show very early on called 'Slap Bang' on a Saturday night and it didn't work. It started off peak time and started getting earlier and earlier in the schedule. I think that that taught us you have to adapt.
I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.
Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.
The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.
What I try to steer my kids away from is any time there's a pattern, and you can slap any other track on that track, and it would still work.
