Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
From John Cale
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
That's what my life is, writing songs.
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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