I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
From M. Ward
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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