Klayton
Klayton, born Scott Albert, is an industrial rock musician, who has performed under a variety of stage names over his career, and is best known as being the frontman for his latest project, Celldweller.
"I just let everybody else decide for me what Celldweller sounds like. I love electronic music. I love technology. I love aggressive guitars and bass. I love live drums. I love lush vocal melodies. I love sensual atmospheres. The list goes on. I suppose Celldweller is some amalgam of all of these and then some."
"Too many stigmas attached to Circle (of Dust) and the fact that the label I was on had lost their distribution and wouldn't give me a budget for a new disc. I finally decided it was time to clean house, so to speak. I don't regret the decision."
"Living in a world without Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. (when asked 'What's your greatest fear?')
"Of late, I’ve really been listening to a lot of DJ sets. DJ Chloe Harris… she has a couple of sets that I really dig."
"I have to admit that technology often times excites me much more than cutting vocals. An elephant in a thong excites me more than cutting vocals. You now have a visual to conjure (if you dare) that expresses to some degree how cutting vocals is not my favorite part of the job." 8/8/07
"I can say as a generalization that conceptually Celldweller is more a reflection of an internal bondage as opposed to a physical, external one."
"I was leaning against the wall in front of the punk club CBGB's when I saw a few familiar faces so I said hello. Just then, Klayton jumped out of his tour mini-bus and greeted me. It was inspiring watching Celldweller in action at this favorite venue of mine. Celldweller combines elements of theater, projected video, heavy guitar and ballsy vocals with good melodies and electronic trance music. Celldweller kicked everyone's a**es at CBGB's (not that art is a competition) especially mine. These guys are totally professional and Klayton is a rock star ready to be launched into outer space." Billy Lamont Jul 2004 note: spelling and grammatical changes were made to this quote
"There has been no overnight success for me. It’s a constant state of mind to not give up and to ignore discouragement."
"I love incorporating new production methods and revitalizing older tracks of mine and breathing new life into them."
"I'm not one to sit here and cry 'life's so unfair. I got burnt by the church and I'm so upset.' Boo Hoo. Everyone's got problems, get over it."
"I am not about doing what everyone else has done. I don’t even listen to anything remotely close to what’s on the radio right now."
"I am definitely musically schizophrenic. That translates into my music. I listen to so much different, so many different styles of music so I don't see any reason in this day and age why certain styles of music or any style of music that you want cannot coexist within your own sound."
"(Artists) are still trying to figure out 'how can we get music to people?' and I’ve always been a guy who’s about sharing if I didn’t have to charge for my music and I didn’t have a mortgage every month and have to buy food to stuff into my fat face I wouldn’t worry about it and I would give my music away for free. What I’m trying to do is find a way to be fair."
"I was disappointed with the Switchback video on a personal level and it ultimately did not reflect the concept I had originally created, so I detached myself from it the second I was done editing it."
"Right now my favorite graphic artist would probably be Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell). His still art is amazing."
"I am all about electronic music and Detroit is a place where certain prominent styles of electronic music and culture were born. I will always love New York and I will always be a New Yorker, but I needed a change and was excited about being around more of the electronic subculture."
"This (the self-titled debut Celldweller album) is probably the first record I’ve ever done that I haven’t hated."
"Criss (Angel) and I are very good friends. We did a bunch of music together and everything else. We had a show going for probably 6 years... We did kinda fall out of touch for various reasons and some time last year, probably around this time last year, he actually got in touch with me and we just basically... rectified a few things and it was totally cool."
"I’ve always written things to deal with what I have gone through. Fortunately it seems like other people have heard these songs and can relate to them which is great."
"Not bad from that same guy that peed out of a second story school window in the fifth grade." An unnamed editor of Kudos Magazine