Tracii Guns Quotes on Music (2 Quotes)

Music always comes first in everything that I've been involved with. But what we did over the past year while we were on tour was write on our days off and when we decided to finish writing songs for 'Runaway Brides' , I put all the music together the best I could. Then London LeGrand , vocals had all the music for about a month. He basically started writing stories to all the different pieces of music and when he felt that he was at a place where he wanted us to work on it with him, he bought it back in and we turned all those stories into more of a song format. That was a little different. It was something new for me doing it that way. It's a little bit more artistic in the end.

When I was younger, I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their lifetime There are only twelve notes. I don't really know where it comes from but I know when I'm getting into an area that's a little to reminiscent, so I'll wait a day and something new will come through me. It depends a lot on what I've been listening to. If I listen to classic rock for a year it's going to be bluesy or if I listen to metal for a year it's going to be heavier. I just go with it. I don't try to pre-plan anything.