There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.
I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.
For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.
Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.
I've always used Old English in certain songs.
I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.
I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.
Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A Japanese sculptor was making a round house and wanted a sound piece to play in it. I recorded some very gentle waves lapping the beach, for the first part. And a very small mountain stream, flowing, for the second part. I layered 8 tracks. This was the first work that I did in ProTools.
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.