What was the most significant thing you learnt during the recording of the new record?
During recording you learn so much - different ways of communicating. It’s a process where surely and slowly you get it more and more right, and learn better ways of balancing ideas instead of just letting it fall apart. Communicating what's going on in your head to your band members helps you make better creative choices.
Do you feel at home being the main man on stage?
Well, I’m not out there to be a main man – that’s the outside world’s perceptions. The music’s important, as is being surrounded by good people. You know I have Gus with me, my best friend and Matt on drums. So I’m not solo, just surrounded by different musicians.
How precious are you about solo success?
I wouldn’t say I was precious. Art needs money to continue and I certainly want to continue. But it is not the be all and end all of everything. I strive for success and I’m ambitious, but success to me is getting the album finished, and that sense of completion. And then from that you grow as a person.
You’ve taken on electro and reggae influences in the new record. Are there any other genres you’d like to tackle?
Well, today in music styles are so blurred that you can go in any number of different directions. With those songs, that is just where they wanted to go. Usually it’s just a result of working on something new. Working on something that isn’t your strength - and trying to make it your strength. To discover it, and own it.
What are you looking forward to over the next year?
I got a few things. I’m working on a movie that will hopefully come out. With a friend that wrote the script of a Charles Bukowski book. And I’m working on a suitline. I am known for the suits that I wear. I get asked where I get them from all the time. So I thought that’d be fun.
And finally, what scares you most?
I’m really frightened at the idea of being stuck somewhere like in the middle of an ocean. Like surviving something epic. Having to ‘make it’. That’s truly scary to me.
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