Everything I Do Feels Like It's Going

Composers Are Influenced By All The Important Music In Their Lives - And I Suppose That Since Radio Started Playing Popular Music, That's As Likely To Be The Beatles Or Aphex Twin As It Is To Be Verdi Or Ravel.

I Suppose Subconsciously I Was Thinking In Terms Of Having The Scale Of It Matching The Scale Of The Images. Hence The Sort Of String Quartet, Jazz Band And Electronic Stuff.

I Don't Mind When People Are Telling Me About Their 1971 Firebird, But It's The Same Thing As People Telling Me About Their Car Or Something. It's Fine If You Have An Interest. By Talking With Me, Though, You Could Be Interviewing A Novelist About Guitars. It's The Same Thing, Except I Don't Write That Well Either.

I Sometimes Wish Taste Wasn't Ever An Issue, And The Sounds Of Instruments Or Synths Could Be Judged Solely On Their Colour And Timbre. Judged By What It Did To Your Ears, Rather Than What Its Historical Use Reminds You Of.

Right Now My Mind Is On The People Who Stole Our Instruments, And, Specifically, The Person With My Guitar, Which Will No Doubt End Its Days Having Green Day Songs Worked Out On It. A Better Fate Was Deserved - And While The Reverence Given To Guitars Annoys Me, I Shall Miss It.