A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.'
My songs grow on people - like warts.
I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.
On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music.
I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.
My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
There are songs out there in the world which, in some ways, seem so unmusical.
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.
