Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
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.
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.