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I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.
With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.
I found music to be the therapy of choice.
I don’t like begging money from producers.
It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‘Well, yeah,’ but you start to think, ‘Why not, though?’ What makes one more valuable than another?
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.