Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.
I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to the drudgery.
I've tried to rap, and I cannot do it.
I don't even think my voice is really good.
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
I had another version of 'We Dance' that was kind of glam-rock. It was a little 'Taking Care of Business' mixed with Simon and Garfunkel. But on the album, I did it in a down-and-out way, like the Frogs or David Bowie or something - a little torch song thing.
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.
I'm not saying I look at those pictures all the time and think, 'Wow, I was hot.' Just, you know, I think everybody deserves to be objectified at least once in their life.
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.
We always did our own mixing.
There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
