"...When
we're writing songs, Jon and Richie will come up with something,
and I'll figure out something to to go along with it. But
sometimes things come out of the blue--like the end of the song
Bad Medicine, where I hit the bass and snare drum along with
Jon's vocal. I always look at how I'm going to enter a song, how
I'm going the play to the five or so parts that make up the
structure of each of our songs, and especially how I'm going to
musically enhance the chorus.
"In the studio, we all play together live. I will have
worked out a skeleton of--and the essential breaks for--each
song, but mostly what comes out is metaphoric--it just happens.
Afterwards, I never try to analyze anything I've played on
record."
From March 1989 Rhythm magazine
"I think it's just as hard to play 4/4 as it is 7/8. To get that simplicity--and to me, simplicity can be genius--to lay that straight beat in is the basis of every time signature...4/4 is the basis, the foundation, and from there, you can go anywhere you want...It's hard to play 4/4 (or in 11 or 7 or 6/8 ) if you don't feel it."