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" I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it. "
King Tuff
Something
Sun
Because
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" I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there. "
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Find
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" I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world. "
King Tuff
Myself
Control
Feel
" My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere. "
King Tuff
Moments
Out
Best
" Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band. "
King Tuff
Time
People
Go
" I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller. "
King Tuff
Country
Blues
Top
" I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that. "
King Tuff
Release
Mind
Spirit
" I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself. "
King Tuff
Know
Nobody
Trying
" I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. "
King Tuff
Weird
Sit
Light
" My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs. "
King Tuff
Coffee
I Am
Moving
" I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice. "
King Tuff
Practice
Because
Good
" I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter. "
King Tuff
Challenge
Live
Start
" I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll. "
King Tuff
Mind
Rock
Think
" My friends always had bands, and we would play together. "
King Tuff
Play
Together
Always
" It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth. "
King Tuff
Trees
Without
Earth
" The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff. "
King Tuff
Myself
Music
King
" I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. "
King Tuff
Music
College
Listening
" You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it. "
King Tuff
Will
Attention
Long
" Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A. "
King Tuff
Vermont
Always
Heart
" Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal. "
King Tuff
Liberal
Town
Small Town
" Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3. "
King Tuff
Rock
Rock And Roll
Me
" Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box. "
King Tuff
Box
Crisp
Golden
" I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great. "
King Tuff
Good
Records
Love
" I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious. "
King Tuff
Everything
Science
Mysterious
" Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs. "
King Tuff
Years
First
Different
" I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy. "
King Tuff
Beauty
Place
People
" I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music. "
King Tuff
People
Dog
Think
" I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever. "
King Tuff
Drive
Fun
Van
" I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not. "
King Tuff
Remember
Once
Denver
" My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out. "
King Tuff
Brother
Conformity
Me
" I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span. "
King Tuff
Time
Attention
Now