I think there are some things I am unable to fully express with my visual work, and the music is what fills that void. At the same time, I don't think you can fully appreciate the music without the anchor of the visual work.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded
After touring an album, you have this strange void that follows it, where you feel slightly displaced, like you've just finished with the circus and you've got to find a new job. You think, OK, what shall we do next.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
Where are the John Lennons, the Bob Marleys, the Bob Dylans? Where have they gone?
The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.
