Josh Freese

“A lot of sessions I do the artist isn't even there! It'll be just me and the producer cutting drums to a Pro-Tools session. Other times the artist is very involved and sitting with me discussing and working on the drums with me. Both happen often.”

“I work with famous people, but I'm kind of under the radar.”

“I started making records and touring when I was 15, first with Frank Zappa's son Dweezil.”

“I do have that kind of weird, kooky, kitschy part of my personality, and it's just the way I've always been.”

“I already miss being in Nine Inch Nails. But every time I mention it, my girlfriend reminds me that I'd be much more bummed if I were calling her from the road while I was on tour in Singapore and missing my family. And she's right.”

“The Elfman thing is a lot more complex musically, but The Gecs are so much fun and I like the songs and I like their attitude. The whole thing is right up my alley; both things are up my alley but in different ways.”

“You know, I love pop music.”

“Anyone can make a record with instruments that work.”

“I'm probably famous to the drummer kid that lives down the street from me, but that's about it.”

“I can pinpoint when I started playing professionally very easily, because in 1985, when I was 12, I got a job playing in a Top 40 band out at Disneyland. I had to join the musician's union. I started getting paid to play the drums and having to pay taxes on that money. So I've paid taxes every year since I was 12 from drumming income.”

“I like pretty stuff, I like hard stuff, I like sad stuff and I like super-punk stuff.”

“Sometimes I think why would anyone want to come talk to me, or be that excited about meeting me? But when you're 14 and you live in the middle of nowhere, it is a big deal.”