On November 4th, Jeff Stinco gave an interview to Brendan Kelly from Montreal Gazette, in which the Simple Plan guitarist discussed his side projects and also the next Simple Plan album. The most interesting part of the interview was the reveal that the band plans on finally moving from the song-writing phase after this year and hit the recording studio in January!

Read a couple of quotes from this interview:

(On his bandmates attending the opening party of his new establishment Laurea earlier this year and even flying down to Montreal from the US because of that) “I was proud of that. I guess that’s some kind of an endorsement on their part.”

(On what his bandmates think of his side business) “They think I’m kind of crazy. They don’t understand why I would work during downtime.”

(On his reasoning behind his side projects) “I felt it was the right time to try different things. It’s about following my passions, doing things that I really wanted to do for a long time. The know-how I bring from the music industry is from when we started out. Doing flyers on our own. Just making sure the accounting was done properly and on time. It’s all about putting your heart into it and believing in a concept. And there’s a bit of showmanship, too. When you open a restaurant, you want to make sure people have a great time. That’s a parallel (you can make) with the music industry. People don’t come to your shows to have five guys seated on chairs and not do or say anything.”

(On why it takes so long to release a new album) “We’re slow writers. A lot of people in the music industry have a crew of writers writing when they’re on the road so when they get back home, they record an album and get back on the road. We have to stop because we’re not really good at focusing at two things at the same time.”

As a part of this interview, Jeff Stinco was also photographed (see top image) and you can check out two pictures from that photoshoot in the gallery. A small portion of the interview is also available on video: