Organic Collaboration Quotes

I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.

Whenever I've collaborated with anyone in the past it's just happened really, I've never actively sought it out.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

That's what has always been so surprising for The Seekers - when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.

If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

For me, there is no point in doing a duet unless it is organic or there is an emotional thru line.

I didn't 'join' Queen. We played together and found a strong connection, did a TV show, and carried on - then I suddenly realised I'd been with these guys for four years. If I'd been called up and asked to join, I would have said no.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.