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Profession: Musician
Nationality: English
Birthday: July 17, 1949

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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

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I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

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For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

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'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.

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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

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I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I'm trying to be more mindful of that.

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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.

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I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.

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Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

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With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

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I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

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I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

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I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

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We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have.

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I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

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I like the sound a typewriter makes.

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