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But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
The humanists’ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.