I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.
Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.
Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.
Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences.
When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.
Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.
I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.
I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.
If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.
I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.
My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.
I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.
You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.
I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.
You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.
So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?
It's really exciting and kind of special, especially having our own band. It's just completely different.
The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.
A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.
That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.
My demographic of people have been very supportive.
Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.
I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.
Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.
I could see us doing solo material in the future.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.
We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.
But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.
Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.
But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.
The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.
When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.
People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.
Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.
They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.
They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time.
When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.
Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled.
When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
The real excitement comes from continually making records that I'm really proud of and finding my identity in the record making process.
When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.
Making sleep happen is a must- anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.
So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.
So in a sense, the accident was definitely good for me and if that didn't happen, it probably would have taken me a lot longer to get productive.
I would go on the bus by myself; I couldn't even read with my violin under my arm, but it was a learning experience and I ultimately persevered.
I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.
I'm at a point where I'm going where the journey leads me. I've set goals but I don't get really hung up if I don't achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?
Just this last year, I made the statement by hooking up with Greenpeace. By not only contributing money, but by contributing more my time.
I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
I think that for a long time it scratching was sort of frowned upon within music because people didn't understand that there was a craft involved.
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
Other times, I'll just sit with the lyrics and, basically, the lyrics will inspire me to write a particular melodic part or vocal melody.
It'd be interesting if you had to find a record for everything you had to say. But I think that whole talking code thing is great.
That's because the name has almost become a brand name. My essence is still me. But that name Corey Hart refers to this an album.
Well, I stand by that comment, I think a couple of years ago, I think we all felt the same way, we weren't sure wanted to release another live record.
Well, it's just always the same. It's the same arrangements. It's the same if I'm playing bass, if I'm playing guitar, if I'm playing piano.
Whether it catches up to what the world sees or record companies or radio or everybody wants - you can't be the architect of that.
Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.
When I get up and play, I'm not having to sell myself because people are coming in with an open mind even if they haven't heard me before.