I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.