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Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and what you're attempting to support, it's not uncommon to think of your music and to think of the way your orchestra plays for something like Jack and Daxter where you start with- you know because it has to change tempo and intensity as the action gets more intense.