I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
The world I was born into was one filled with music.
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.
With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
The story behind every song is individual to itself.