I'm always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to paint, just like Frank Ocean paints with his lyrics. I try in similar ways to paint my life into these songs.
In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.
I enjoy Dinosaur for what it is. It's a unique band that has a unique chemistry.
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.
I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.
I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.
A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.
Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!
Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.
Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.
If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin?
Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to use it.
I feel 'Love Letters' has been part of a longer journey towards a very simple, international sound in which the sitar is no longer exotic or classical, but simply a tool of expression when juxtaposed with the voice and cross-genre elements.
