I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.