“Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.”
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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.