JMP: Well, first of all I don’t really sit and decide to write an album of music. I don’t really work that way. As an artist, I don’t believe in intentionality, or music with a concept. It may not be the answer you were hoping for, but I have to be honest, right? It’s like sex, the less you are wearing the better it is.
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JMP: Or to put it another way, it’s the difference between the talk of politicians and normal persons. If you listen to politicians, in their speeches they have intentions and concepts in what they are saying. They sound very convincing. Actually they convince lots of people with what they are saying. But they don’t sound normal. If you listen to them, they will never, ever, ever sound like normal people expressing themselves. Or very rarely. It’s very special when they do. Everybody knows they are lying . But when a normal person talks to you, you just listen to what the person says in a very natural way. You don’t need to be convinced. There’s no [intention] in what they are saying, its just human communication—more basic. For me, music is interesting when it falls into the second category, not into the first. I have this problem with people who have lots of concepts and intentions in music. I think it sounds like politics. It sounds like they are trying to convince people with a whole bag of tricks, and for me music is much more simple than that. It’s an expression of my voice and if I convince people with it—I hope I do—it’s not my goal. I have no goal, actually. I have no choice. I’m just speaking with my own voice and if this is to the liking of some people listening, then great. It’s a very natural process. I’m like a little child when music goes through me. I’m just a little child that lets music go through me and I don’t have any concept, intention, or goal. I’m just a music emitter. All those things on the record are things that I hear, and things that I feel. It’s based on the feeling, not on a goal or a concept. Those words are really foreign to me.