One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.
I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
I am my own muse, the subject I know best.