Entrevista à Reuters

A entrevista que podem ler AQUI é curta, mas aborda alguns pontos da construcção do Octahedron e, o que me interessou mais, a questão das editoras. Transcrevo já duas questões - na entrevista completa têm 6.

YOU SAID YOU WANTED "THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH" TO BE YOUR LAST MAJOR-LABEL RECORD, BUT THEN YOU ENDED UP JUST JUMPING FROM UNIVERSAL TO WARNER BROS. WHAT HAPPENED?
Wait -- Warner isn't an indie? Again, this is the problem with just saying what you're feeling at the time. Especially when you act completely out of instinct, the way I do. As with a record, it's so different what you have in your head and what comes out when you start writing the f---ing thing. I felt that way and felt that way and then ran into (Warner Bros. Chairman/CEO) Tom Whalley. I'd known Tom in the past and liked his attitude. It just felt like, "OK, let's give this relationship a try." And it's like any relationship you'd have. You say, "OK, I'm going to trust you, but you got to trust me also.

YOU'VE BEEN DESCRIBED AS A CONTROL FREAK WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING MUSIC, AND YET CEDRIC BIXLER-ZAVALA HAS COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THE LYRICS. DO YOU CLASH MUCH BECAUSE OF THIS?
We've had three arguments in the 18 years we've known each other and two of them have been over food. It's unspoken. He hears my record and goes, "Ah, OK, of course." It's one of those things we can't really explain or even understand.