Americans Are So Dumb!

[as A Kid] I Felt It Was Really Weird That Music Schools Behaved Like A Conveyor Belt To Make Performers For Those Symphony Orchestras. If You Were Really Good And Practiced Your Violin For A Few Hours A Day For Ten Years You Might Be Invited To This Vip Elite Club. For Me Music Was Not About That. It Is About Freedom And Expression And Individuality And Impulsiveness And Spontaneity. It Wasn't So Apollonian; It Was More Dionysian.

Love Is A Two Way Dream.

Iceland Sets A World-record. The United Nations Asked People From All Over The World A Series Of Questions. Iceland Stuck Out On One Thing. When We Were Asked What Do We Believe, 90% Said, 'ourselves'. I Think I'm In That Group. If I Get Into Trouble, There's No God Or Allah To Sort Me Out. I Have To Do It Myself.

I'm Not As Religious As Some People About "the Album." To Be Honest, That Was A Product Of A Format. You Had Vinyl, And You Could Fit Five Songs On Each Side, And That's 45 Minutes. You Had A-side Songs And B-side Songs; I Always Loved The First Song On Side B. And There's Nothing Wrong With That. Prog Albums Of The 70s Adapted To That Format Very Much. But Not All Musicians Want To Create 45 Minutes Of Music That Has To Be Listened To In Chronological Order.

I've Written Arrangements For Choirs And Strings In The Past, But I Usually Write Music With My Voice Or A Keyboard And Then I'll Get Someone Who Is Good At Writing Scores To Write It Out. Or, If I Have The Luxury Of Time, I Will Go In A Room And Hear The People Perform And Then Change It Through What I Hear, Not On Paper. I Can Read Music Ok, But I Probably Rebelled A Little - Music Changes Into Something Else When You Read It.