I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
BLACK FRANCISI’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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When we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
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It’s sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.
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Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn’t how people are going to receive them, because they don’t know the code.
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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
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Who do sing SONGS. It’s like I never sang before; like I was – I don’t know – reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing
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I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer.
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, ‘Velouria’] – ‘Sounds like someone’s been taking singing lessons’. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer.
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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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