KORN's JONATHAN DAVIS Looking Foward To Family Time

Australia's The Courier-Mail recently conducted an interview with KORN frontman Jonathan Davis. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On missing his three boys, aged one, three and 12:

"I talked to my little boy today and he said 'Daddy come home. I miss you. Daddy come hooooommme!' It's real hard.

"On the road I write constantly different styles of music. In the US I take my little studio along. When I'm in other places I'll go and see the sights and hang out. Just anything to keep my mind off missing my family so bad."

On touring:

"I've been constantly touring for 14 years the longest I've had off in any year is a couple of months. The longest period we've ever had completely off is maybe, a month, when we come off the road we usually go back into the studio and start writing. So I get to go back home every night but it's still not enough. It's not like 'home' home where I'm not doing anything. It sucks man but whenever I am home it's 100 per cent them.

"We've been on the road for a whole year. It's been crazy. We're just back from Europe we had less than two weeks at home, before we came to South America."

On original KORN members guitarist Brian "Head" Welch and drummer David Silveria leaving in 2005 and 2006 respectively:

"The biggest impact was on 'Munky' (guitarist James Shaffer) because he was used to writing with Head, they'd bounce ideas around a lot. So that was the biggest change for us. 'Field' (bassist Reginald Arvizu) and I still do what we've always been doing, but now we just get together and write which is a little different. But we're still having fun man, those guys had to go and that's fine it's cool."

On his kids:

"How do you explain to them what you're doing? They just don't grasp it yet. My 12-year-old knows, he's been through it, but it's the three-year-old now, he's starting to feel it. So I have to go through it all again."

"[My 12-year-old son who is already making music ] sends me songs all the time it's amazing. He likes playing bass, but then he does stuff on keyboards, programming stuff he's really getting into it. It's really cool. In a few years my boys'll be grown up and hopefully on the road with me. Maybe in the band that'd be killer."