On screen, Joness characters are often intense.
Back when he started, his primary audience was an ex-girlfriend he was trying to win back.
But I found myself making 30-40 songs in the equivalent of half-a-year.
Credit: Jacqueline Castel
Im a really paranoid person sometimes half of the time, most of the time.
I needed to record em or forget em, he says.
And then when they asked, Are you gonna put that out?
I was dying to release my music, I just didnt know what way it was gonna be.
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And it also showed me that acting could be something different than what I thought it could be.
I thought it was very surface and very kind of superficial and it was all about pretending.
Then that pretending became something that I found I could put more into than I thought.
The acting thing I was getting a quicker response.
Whatever Im doing is what Im doing.
So for the most part if Im making music, thats all Im doing.
This beautiful melody for two minutes and then you just cut back to this crazy cacophony.
I thought that was very funny because youre teasing this sweetness and then taking it away.
Because theres tongue-in-cheek, theres screw you, theres ha-ha-ha, theres he-he-he.
My friend Robert who played bass and some guitar on it had the same reaction.
And then his head falls back and goes ha-ha-ha-ha and I go, Yes!
Are there any artists in particular whove inspired that approach?
All the songs play with that, You like it?
OK, well take it away.
