Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
From Robert Wyatt
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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