Demo Quotes

"I`m working on a demo and putting down tracks this week, actually. I write all my own music. It`s like Sheryl Crow`s and Joni Mitchell`s stuff. I`m totally staying away from the Britney Spears thing - I don`t want to be marketed and packaged".

(when asked if punk rock influenced his 1979 album "Rust Never Sleeps) No, I wasn`t really influenced by that scene. Most of the songs on that album had been written well before The Sex Pistols were ever heard of. "The Thrasher" was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby Stills & Nash in the mid-`70s. Do you know Lynyrd Skynyrd almost ended up recording "Powderfinger" before my version came out? We sent them an early demo of it because they wanted to do one of my songs.

I drive around in my car and listen to (the demo). And if I drive by people I know, I have to roll the windows up and turn it down -- or if somebody calls, I have to turn it off.

It got a little bit messy because promotion wise, it was supposed to be promoted as a promotional demo CD for free,

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.

Bob Bergen and Jack Angel helped me to get in the big doors... I contacted them through a mutual fan, actually, and just to get replies from them in the form of an email was exciting... I think I actually giggled like a schoolgirl. That was huge, to have the ears of these voice gods helping me out with my demo. Every day I get to meet and work with my heroes - people like Frank Welker and more recently Dee Baker - the voices of just about every creature in animation. I`ve been such a big fan since I was a little kid. I`d do the work for nothing, just for the privilege to watch them work...

I know I can`t do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level.

Writing this one was a whole process for me. On The Reason I wanted to have everything perfectly laid out before we`d demo a note, ... This time around we kind of demoed the songs and left them as skeletons. We let most of the songs` development happen in the studio. And some of the songs changed just a little bit. But others, they became almost unrecognizable.