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that happened during a warm-up         been fun when we were teenagers
                                           round on the track. It happens.        but c’mon, you can’t even try to
                                                                                  write something serious about it
                                       It does and then it just changed           without provoking people.
                                       your path forever.
                                           Yeah, it did. I mean I would like  Somebody is going to be always
                                           to say that it was  meant to be,  provoked. Triggered.
                                           but at the same time where I’d         So there’s absolutely no need to
                                           be. It was just a path that was set    try to provoke anyone. People are
                                           for me and I just followed it you      easily provoked by themselves.
                                           know?
                                                                               This is very very true. So you
                                       Right. You know, sometimes life         do a lot of producing. Do you
                                       just gives you a bigger wakeup          consider yourself a producer
                                       call than others to change what         over an artist or both? Where
                                       you should be doing to put you          do you feel your talents are best
                                       on the right path. I was doing          honed?
                                       some research for this interview.          The producer part is kind of just
                                       I read that you took a lot of flak         like,  something  --  the  producer
                                       for the video of “Throat Full of           part is kind of like riding a bike
                                       Glass”. Do you feel that this              and riding  a bicycle. You just
                                       was because of the times in the            know how to do it and you do
                                       political climate and would you            it well. You just can’t explain to
                                       have gone in a different direction         anyone how you do it, why you
                                       based on political climate?                do it, you just know how to do
                                           Well, it’s such a double-sided         it. Like the art part is like when
                                           knife or whatever  you call it.        you start doing tricks with a bike
                                           Because in one way, I would say        you know. Just the two sides of it
                                           it like hey, if people are offended    in the studio, I said and I always
                                           by this, I wouldn’t want to do         consider it that I’m  working
                                           that again because I’m not out         somewhat as  an art  form  and
                                           to offend anybody. But people          I’m being an artist.  And I also
                                           are offended by everything. My         feel like there’s  a  big difference
                                           intentions  were never  the ones       between being a musician and
                                           that people gave me flak about.        being  an  artist. A musician  can
                                           It was like they were like, “you’re    play anything, but not necessarily
                                           sexist” or “a woman hater” or          write anything. And I  always
                                           whatever it was. It wasn’t like that   consider myself as an artist where
                                           at all. We just made like a 70’s       I create things close to my soul
                                           grindhouse  movie kind of thing        and if it sounds right for what it
                                          and we just didn’t think of it. We      is, that’s the production part, but
                                          just  thought it was  fun. It  was      it’s also a little bit part of the art of
                                          cheesy, it was dumb and it was          course. But it doesn’t have to be
                                          funny. It was supposed to be that       perfect. Sometimes, something
                                          way. We had a female producer.          rough and edgy is perfect for the
                                          One of girls in the scene that          song.
                                          people talked about directed the
                                          scene and to us it was never an  Right. Sometimes it breathes life
                                          intentional  thing,  because  we  into it that it wouldn’t have had
                                          were working with all these girls  otherwise.
                                          that were making the video. It’s        Yes. So the production  for me
                                          just one of those things that when      and producer for me is second
                                          people  look back at it, they go,       handed,  but it’s  like I said, you
                                          “Oh this was horrible!” And I go,       don’t  really think of  it.  You’re
                                          “Oh man, I’m sorry you look at it       already on the bike, you’re just
                                          that way.” It was obviously never       riding the bike and you already
                                          our intention. I wouldn’t repeat it     know what you’re doing  so I
                                          on purpose just to piss people off.     never  really  put  in  thought  into
                                          I’m not doing things on purpose         the production. I always put
                                          to provoke people. It might have        everything into the art itself.
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