When I use electronic beats and program things, there’s something quite brain about that – you’re feeling it in your body but it’s like a puzzle you wanna solve, and it gets very detailed. I really enjoy that side of music.

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When I use electronic beats and program things, there’s something quite brain about that – you’re feeling it in your body but it’s like a puzzle you wanna solve, and it gets very detailed. I really enjoy that side of music.

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Feelings Use

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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Floating Soup
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It’s about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Expression
I’d love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

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I’d love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.
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Kids Lovely Winning
They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

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They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low
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Lows Must Say
I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music – just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

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I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music – just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.
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Drawing
And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

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And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Edge Expression Immediate
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time – very inspiring and dramatic.

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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time – very inspiring and dramatic.
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Music’s free and music’s for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

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Music’s free and music’s for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.
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Decades Enjoy
I’d tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.

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I’d tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.
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I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man’s body.
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Expectations
Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate – and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.
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Jobs
I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

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I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.
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Dark Sometime
It’s very much to do with how I’m feeling … I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created!

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It’s very much to do with how I’m feeling … I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created!
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Feelings Historical
I guess it’s subverting our expectations in terms of how we’ve come to expect women to present themselves when they’re being naked. Also the woman’s and the man’s role is subverted in that image. You’d expect the man to be carrying the woman.
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Themselves
I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don’t usually employ.

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I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don’t usually employ.
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I’m not really frightened by experimenting – that’s the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

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I’m not really frightened by experimenting – that’s the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
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Frightened Historical

When I use electronic beats and program things, there’s something quite brain about that – you’re feeling it in your body but it’s like a puzzle you wanna solve, and it gets very detailed. I really enjoy that side of music.

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