00:00She brings me the music and I am slowly...
00:04My wife is everything to me, you know, she's everything.
00:10I think she is in a way that you could say muse or what I have you,
00:16but she truly does, she brings me the music.
00:19And there's also written a period where,
00:21although I haven't been away that long,
00:23when you've been with someone in such close proximity for so long,
00:27a good few days away, you really do start questioning a lot of things
00:31and what's important to you and what's not.
00:34And, yeah, I really wanted to...
00:36I had written that song before, but I really felt like,
00:41because the recording process was a little mad at times,
00:48I think the energy and the feeling in the song is so much more pronounced,
00:52especially at the end, there's the screaming within it,
00:55there's this big crescendo of calling.
00:57And the funny thing is, we used to laugh about it,
01:00because wherever we were, we could never get...
01:03we could never phone, we could never call anyone,
01:06we're in the middle of these studios,
01:07we literally couldn't get any signals.
01:09So no, whoever was married, whoever was trying to...
01:12we could never get through.
01:13And it became like a mantra, and you'd see people calling,
01:17calling constantly trying to get through,
01:19and we never could get through.
01:25The Royal Highness, to me, is like, lyrically it's like a celebration
01:30of the act of being in a studio when most of the city is asleep,
01:34and you perhaps creating something that in six months' time,
01:37or a few months' time, people are going to hear.
01:40There's a magic to that.
01:42There's a magic to be making music, creating anything,
01:45in the dead of night, in your own little universe.
01:49So the busy doing it, making, shaping it, creating it,
01:52it's all about that.
01:53It's about when you're on that crest of a wave of creativity,
01:56and you wish it could last forever, unfortunately it can't.
02:01There will be a crash, there will be a down point,
02:03there will be a point where the stuff stops flowing for a while,
02:07but when it's flowing, and everything's coming together,
02:09there's no other feeling like it.
02:11So, in a sense, the beat that No ID put on was just perfect for it.
02:17It was like something straight, you know,
02:19it took me straight back to like Salt and Pepper or something,
02:21it took me straight back to back in the day from DMC.
02:26But the Beatitudes I constructed and put some beats on myself
02:30before No ID came in, and then he just took it on to another level.
02:36Again, because I wanted to get physical on this record,
02:38I wanted there to be opportunities for me to perform this record,
02:42not be tied exclusively to a guitar for 80% of the show.
02:51Well, in a sense, I'd been hammering out that song on the piano for four or five years,
02:58and I'd never actually got to a point where I could record it, I tried recording it.
03:04I could never seem to get anywhere near what I was hearing in my head,
03:10and the vision of these incredible almost day-in-a-life crescendos and then down again.
03:17And by recording it in a very stripped-down way with just a big beat behind
03:22and leaving that space, it sounded possible to do.
03:28It sounded like, yeah, this could be achievable.
03:30And I think No ID at the time was saying, you know, that's my favourite song out of everything we'd
03:34done that week.
03:35So I started re-looking at it, and we put some more guitars.
03:40I actually, I think I recorded nine different pianos on that song, trying to get the sound.
03:48I don't think I ever actually achieved it, but for all over the world, Italian pianos, Japanese pianos.
03:54I don't like Japanese pianos, so nearly every studio does have a Japanese piano.
04:00German pianos, you know, it got a bit crazy.
04:04As a finisher of a record, it's about letting go after all that emotion.
04:10It's about, you know, maybe it's time to let it go.
04:16Let a lot of the past go, let a lot of the pain go, and move on, you know.
04:22Find some kind of redemption through music.
04:24Find something that gives you the energy and whatever to carry on.
04:30I'll see you in a bit of a little bit.
04:34It's about 3.0 to any other people, and you can find something that's going on.
04:35Yeah, and as you can see, people write to me in the background.
04:36Have a great question.
04:36Have a great question.
04:36We can learn how to learn what's going on.
04:36I think that it's about it.
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