Dec 5, 2025
Amy Ray: I tend to write from a lot of different places, because I don’t like to write more than a few songs about one thing. I get bored easily, so I move around. But I tend to have lifelong things that I touch on. For one record, I kind of—I don’t know—have a short...
Dec 5, 2025
Artists have never gotten a fair deal, because the industry was not designed for the artist to be rich. It was designed for us to entertain, and for the labels to prosper, because they had to foot the bill for this “lavish life” that we live. Which is, in all honesty,...
Dec 5, 2025
I always felt that there was a point you could reach, and then you couldn’t go any further. You could be a British white interpreter of the blues—and I suppose the pinnacle of that would have been Peter Green, in the ’60s—but then how does someone like Peter Green...
Dec 5, 2025
I get bands that come up to me, and they’ve got all kinds of image. They all look like Good Charlotte. I go, ‘Great image, you look terrific.’ And then I hear the song, and I go, ‘Okay, I get it, you’re angry’ (laughs). I tell them, ‘You’ve got a nice beat and this...
Dec 5, 2025
When I went to Baghdad I ended up being introduced to this young oud player—an Iraqi guy who’d studied in Egypt. He sang in Arabic, and played really quite beautifully. And then it was my turn, so I pulled out the dobro and just started screwing around thinking that I...
Dec 5, 2025
I remember people saying that was the Peter Gabriel drum sound, but I was the guy who played that stuff on the third album, “Intruder” and all that. It was as much mine, because with that kind of drum sound, you’re composing [sings drum beat from “Intruder”]. That was...
Dec 5, 2025
I was a 4 Non Blondes fan and Linda Perry was one of the voices I connected with in my darkest moments as an adolescent. We went into her little studio and she said, ‘OK, how are you feeling today?’ and gave me a microphone and hit record. I got my little journals out...
Dec 5, 2025
It’s one thing to be a songwriter, but I’m about to go online and have some discussion about artwork. It’s okay that it takes more than songwriting [to be an artist]. That’s a funny thing about living in L.A. and Hollywood. Hollywood loves its accomplished, but...
Dec 5, 2025
“Songs are architectural, living, changing aural environments. It’s difficult to disassemble them. Some lines are just a part of your life—you sing them over and over again. But for the most part, the songs that I don’t use don’t get found anywhere. They are...
Dec 5, 2025
There’s no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They’ve got something to lose if they say it’s all poetry; if there’s not music to...
Dec 5, 2025
I know when a tune is done because it’s that same feeling as knowing you’re on to something when you’re starting a song. There’s that little period of time after a song is done when you want to make tweaks and adjustments. But I’m not very precious about those things,...
Dec 5, 2025
I used to think you needed a strong image or something different in there, or something humorous, you know? I never thought about hooks or anything in my songs. But the longer I do it, the more I think you can say the simplest thing that’s been said many times...
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