There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
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