I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.
I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.
I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating a formula and sticking with it and I just told myself, 'That's not me, that's not really how I am, god forbid I have developed a formula - it's music; songwriting. ' It's heretic, honestly, in the church of music, so I had to unwind a few tricks in order to get past it.
I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.
The will of God prevails.
The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.