Was this something you acquired based on life experiences, or just through creating music? I can tell based on this level of patience you’re exuding. There are a lot of people that I know that will resonate with it and some people might not, but I know I’m going to do my best and if my best means waiting… that’s something I had to struggle accepting, you know what I’m saying? I just have the pressures of putting it out. No, I’m an independent artist, so I don’t have the pressures of meeting charts or sales. With you being such a perfectionist, do you feel more pressure from yourself when creating music as opposed to the pressure you normally receive from your fans? So it takes pulling back and meeting expectations on a different time frame than you planned or expected. And I wanna make sure those elements are at least in there somewhere. I love when artists can still be fans of other people’s work.
I’m like, “Oh, that’s special! Oh, did you hear that?” Those little elements mean everything to me when I’m listening to other people’s projects. I didn’t feel it was right and I edited the guitars out between all four guitarists because it had to feel a certain way and I was able to shoot a music video to that. If I feel like “Damage” needed a guitar and live Prince feels to it, that’s what we were going to do. So making a project is easy - the creative side - but it’s about getting all of the fine elements together. There’s songs on there from 2011 because I stayed in the studio, but they’re cohesive. I never scrapped it, it was about building and tweaking. How many times did you scrap the project? If mastering isn’t right, go back and get it done again.” It takes revisiting. I had to pull it back and say, “If the mix isn’t right, do it again. That’s the hardest part when you have artistic vision, release dates, and special dates to commemorate for the fans. I really had to practice patience and pull back and say “it has to be right and to perfection.” Let’s not base it off a deadline, let’s base it off when it’s right and when all of the elements and components are together. We have another anniversary this year on April 20.” It didn’t come out when I wanted it to, but I just said, “OK. It’s the 20th anniversary this year, so I had to be patient.
I don’t eat. I don’t sleep until it’s done, especially if I have a deadline in mind. I definitely learned that when I want something done, I’m very tunnel-visioned out.
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