Love Between The Ugly, Is The Most

They May Be Stupid, But They Sure Are Fun.

It's Never The Same Relationship. I See My Job As Filling In The Blanks. Whatever It Is That The Artist Lacks In The Process Of Making A Record, I'm Supposed To Fill That In. And Sometimes It's A Lot Of Stuff And I Have To Hector Them About Working On The Material And That Sort Of Thing. Sometimes You Have An Artist That's Really Fairly Self-sufficient; They Just Need Another Ear To Offer Some Objective Criticism, But Otherwise Pretty Much Know What They're Doing. It Varies A Lot.

I've Been Essentially Not Only Deconstructing And Reconstructing The Material To Make It Suitable For The Performance, But I've Gone Back And Found Some Older Material That's Appropriate For The Show And I've Re-recorded That As Well In Kind Of A Newer Format. So I've Been Pretty Much Focused On My Own Thing.

Sometimes You're A Psychiatrist And Sometimes You're A Group Therapist. The Dynamics In Between People And The Misgivings Sometimes That Artists Have When They Get Into The Studio Because They're Under A Different Level Of Scrutiny. A Lot Of Them Can Be Insecure About It. My Job Is Not Simply To Make Musical Determinations But Sometimes To Just Keep People From Flipping Out During The Process.

People Got A Little Too Self-conscious About The Techniques That Go Into Recording Because Sometimes, If You Sing Too Well In Tune, People Accuse You Of Auto-tuning. It's Like You Have To Use Auto-detuning Or Something.