RZ speaks to Music Radar; ‘You’ve got to walk onstage and, at the VERY least: look cool.’

Since rising to fame with White Zombie in the ’80s, the 49 year-old Massachusettiasn has not only shifted an impressive 16 million albums, he’s also written and directed eight horror films, successfully rebooted the Halloween franchise (to the tune of nearly $120 million), and even helmed an episode of CSI: Miami. Alongside this he’s built a reputation for one of the most unmissable, theatrical live shows since Kiss’ pyro-friendly heyday. We caught up with the metal legend to talk about being a one-stop creative shop, his hatred of recording studios and how to put together an unmissable concert.

“I think that it was just the fact that I was so naive about what any of these fields required. I think sometimes people try to learn too much, or get too old before they start and can look at it like, ‘This is a million to one – why even bother?’ But when you’re young, you don’t think about it. You’re too stupid to think about it! So I would always rather go do it myself and make a million mistakes then figure out some kind of system. And that’s a horrible way to do it – I don’t recommend it! But that’s just the way I do it. I think that’s why I do it, because it stays fun.”

“I’m very scatterbrained, I can’t focus on one thing at a time and I’ve never been able to do that, so luckily having multiple projects works in my favour. I can work on this for a while until I get bored and then work on something else and slowly they all get done. I’m not the type of guy who goes, ‘I’m gonna sit down and write this script.’ I’ll sit down, I’ll fart around with it for an hour and then I’ll move on to something else, but I’ll do it every day and somehow, after a couple of months, it’s done – and so are the songs, the lyrics – and that’s how I approach everything.”

“There’s really no one I can delegate to, these are all artistic pursuits – either you’ll do it, or you’ll not do it. The type of thing I delegate is saying to John 5, because I trust John with everything, ‘Get the band together, you guys rehearse for a week before I get to town and then I’ll come in and play with the band.’ That’s about as much as you can do. Because even if the merchandise company comes up and goes, ‘We have 20 new T-shirt designs!’ I’ll look at them and go, ‘None of these seem like they came from me.’ So I’ll do it myself. But that’s not being a control freak. That’s just maintaining a level that your fans expect of you. If [the T-shirt design] was awesome, I’d go, ‘Great! That saves me from having to do it!'”

To read the interview in full go to: musicradar.com/rob-zombie-talks-performance-passion-and-being-a-scatterbrain