JM: Now that you've been on your own for the past few years, how has your songwriting evolved?

Brian: I don't know. I'm writing the next record, like, in the next couple months. I haven't wrote anything.

JM: Like, as opposed to when you were with KoRn, and how you are now. How has your songwriting evolved from there?

Brian: Oh! Well, I don't shove, like, twenty beers down my throat, now. Well, before, we'd all get in a room, drink beer, stuff like that, play guitars, and just jam it up and come up with some parts in new songs. But now I write all of my songs. I see all the chords, I hear all the melodies in my head, and I go to a computer and get a keyboard, and I write it on my Macintosh just to get a rough idea of a demo. So that's how I do it. But I may try to write with these guys [the band], a couple of songs for the next record.

JM: How often do you experiment with different tones and effects to make up your playing style?
Brian: Quite a bit. In the studio, we just go nuts. I have four different amps. I have an Orange, Mesa Boogie, a Bogner, Marshall. We just went nuts and tried everything. I do four different tracks of the same thing, and blend them all together to get a really cool sound. Pedals, and stuff? I experiment on every record. It's one of the fun things, like Christmas, that the dealer I go to at the guitar store, and I just shop. I plug in pedals for hours and say, “Is there anything new? What's this, and what's this?” Then I just buy new stuff [for] a new album. Some times I get stuff that's been around for fifty years, like I never tried before. So it's fun. It's a guitar player's Christmas.

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