When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.
Joel PlaskettWhen I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.
Joel PlaskettGreat art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.
Joel PlaskettI chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time when you're recording and to not have the whole thing be some sort of editing process in front of a computer, but to actually try and capture some sort of spirit.
Joel PlaskettIf your gig is not in an office for eight hours a day, its going to be somewhere. If you're a truck driver, you get on a road. If you're a musician, you go to where the people are going to show up and you take the gig. I enjoy it, so I don't and I'm not complaining. Its just the traveling can get to be a bit much.
Joel Plaskett