Life outside rarely accommodates for musical ambition. So you read, and lay in the sun, and go to the pictures. You write music when you've cleaned the car. You go back and work on a track, slop on a wicker chair and perish a sandwich while looking into (but not standing too close to) some pampas grass. You feed it and nurture it with passion from all places. Like any form of creative endeavour, it's only ready when it's really ready. So you keep going to the pictures and reading and perishing sandwiches, while you craft something that little bit special.

Music shifts and it's important to keep an eye on the various directions it takes. It's as vital to try out different guises. If there's one thing that will set you apart, it's doing that. Like masks at a ball. Giving your music a little renaissance here and there, a little rebirth. Seeing what you can do is a far cry from examining what everyone else is doing and then following neatly behind in a single-file line. Big changes are occurring in our music. I am always at a loss to answer questions of genre, so I'd rather not stimulate them. I disagree that a band will fall into certain traps because of their influences.