I don’t know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven’t met any, and I’m kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn’t be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
I did sign to Ruthless Records, but they didn’t really support me.
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
I didn’t go out shooting for anybody in particular because I shot for everybody unparticular. I make records for Muslims, Christians, rock ‘n roll kids, skateboard kids.
I’ve looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I’m there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I’ve been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.
Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don’t take it casually.
No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don’t sell any records anymore.
Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold… but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It’s style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
