I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'
I describe my projects using colors because it's the best way to describe 'em. I would say that 'Moon Shoes' was way more colorful than a lot of my other music, just because I was pulling from so many different places. Imagine learning how to talk for the first time, and you're just saying everything.
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made.
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.
When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.
