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.
"My non-musical guilty pleasure? Top of the list would be any Reese's product"
"I don’t really go to the movies. I hear about the trailers (that feature Celldweller music) but I don’t often see them myself. I’ve never really been a starstruck individual so it’s not really a big deal to me. I am fortunate for what I’ve been able to secure in the Film/TV/Video game world for sure, but I don’t overhype it and get wrapped up in what I’ve done but instead, what I have yet to do. I don’t even own a single video game console. I’ve never seen any of the games I’m in."
"...at times the dude can crush with the sledgehammer ethos of Biohazard, just as he's capable of weaving together acoustic guitars and techno beats so subtly it's hard to tell where the organic stops and the artifice begins." Alex Johnson, Reviewer for Sea of Tranquility
"Some common friends of Jarrod (Montague, drummer of Taproot) and I had passed a Celldweller disc on to him, and I had heard that he was into it. He came down to the studio while I was making the record while he was home for a short break from working on WELCOME. He is a good guy and I just asked him to play on a track somewhat spontaneously and he was into it. 'I Believe You' was one of the newest songs I had written at that time and I was still debating if I was going to play the drums on the track although I really didn’t want to. Jarrod heard the track and knew it was right up his alley."
"I'm better off not commenting on (the status of the music industry today) because I don't have anything really nice to say. Like my mom told me, 'If you don’t have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.'"
"Success is a subjective thing. I don’t particularly rate 'success' by the number of units sold of a disc or the greatest response from the media or listening audience. I am much more moved by how I feel a piece of work turns out as a whole and if it has effectively captured the emotion I wanted to convey. Most everything I write is cathartic and I am constantly purging demons through my music and lyrics. Success for me is when I’ve crushed one more of those demons under the weight of a finished track."
"In my personal life I spent most of my time alone, so naturally I preferred to create alone as well. Truth be told, I am much harder on myself than I would be if there was someone else involved. There is nobody else (but) me to take the blame if the stuff sucks so I need to be sure I’m doing everything I can to make sure the final product represents me the best it can."
"Beginnings of songs are by far the most fun for me - creating melodies, sonic soundscapes and piecing parts together."
"Lyrically, I had to write what I did to work some things out in my own head. It’s a way for me to verbalize my deepest and darkest thoughts, desires and fears without anybody really knowing what the hell I’m specifically talking about."
"The first four songs on the album (Still Suffering by Klank) I had written for the next Circle of Dust album. They were in slightly different forms, but then I liked them so much I just kept them for the Klank album. I had some chord changes and lyric changes so it wouldn't be redundant. It's not like Scott (Klayton) wrote half the album but he did help a lot. I used a lot of his suggestions." Daren 'Klank' Diolosa
"I'm so tough that in the past I've been known to eat marshmallows raw and grapes skin and all. Don't mess with me." 5/9/06
"I’m not going to get up on a pedestal and try to promote a church affiliation or organization. As far as my beliefs in God, absolutely I believe in God and that will never change I’m sure. But as far as my being the cheerleader for somebody, some cause or some organization, I have nothing to do with that. I’m not here with my pom-poms to support somebody’s cause."
"I’ve been too dumb to quit when there have been innumerous times in my career when it would have made sense to. Thank God I’m dumb, because it’s finally paid off."
"I grew up as a teenager listening to a really lot of heavy stuff. I was definitely a Slayer kid and Testament and the harder metal. I was definitely not a glam rocker."
"There's always the outside chance I'll buy a $10 Casio keyboard off eBay and write the whole (next Celldweller) CD with that."
"Two weeks after I signed and secured the deal, the company that owns Flying Tart fired Alex Parker and is completely dissolving the label by year end. (It gets even worse...) I had to laugh. What a pathetic way to go out. I'm so irate about the situation that words can't describe..."
"If someone is treating me like a rock star, I don’t know how to deal with it so I try to avoid contact. It’s not that I hate anyone or I am antisocial. I’m just shy, how about that? That’s an easy word. I’m shy."
"Listening to a band stand there and just play back a CD, song for song doesn't do a thing for me. My mind is a complicated mess, so I need more stimuli to keep it from falling asleep."
"I remember taking a girl to a movie and they happened to play the Spiderman 2 trailer before the main feature. The look of shock when she heard 'Switchback' was priceless – I got to be a stud for 15 seconds."
"'Unlikely' (Stay With Me)'s original constructions were created only on my laptop with Pro Tools Free and some soft synths while I was in the middle of nowhere for a few days visiting family."