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want to do, you’re very focused and very concentrated, but I just go, urrgh,
here’s a pint of bitter, let’s just see where it lands – if it’s there or there, if it’s
underground, if it’s accessible or not accessible, who cares? Just do it, just
get out.
DH: I have a very personal stand because for some of us, if we don’t express
ourselves and perform, then probably insanity is the only alternative. I’m very
into the cathartic nature of art and it’s certainly helped me a lot.
Going back to the original question, I have come to the conclusion that I’m a
very emotional person and I draw on how I feel emotionally, try to
contextualise myself within a very cruel capitalist system and how that makes
me feel. I can be frighteningly open and I think I am quite incontinent in that
way. I think we’re meant to be control freaks, which I abhor. In fact I’m
thinking of designing a T-shirt that says ‘Control freaks, on behalf of humanity,
please kill yourselves as some of us just want to love and live’ – that’s my
moto for today.
DL: But please kill yourselves in an organised fashion, is that it?
SF: From your responses, I get the impression there’s a mass of ideas that
you can select from.
DH: Personal and political.
DL: I think if, as Julie does, you have fingers in many pies, things come to you
because of this random process, if you don’t limit yourself to one modality.
Everyone has a main modality, the one they work most in – I’m more to do
with how things sound whereas I think some people are more concerned with
how they look, or are more kinaesthetic – but everyone has all of them and if
you don’t limit yourself to one, or to one persona or idea of who you are, then
things do make connections almost in an organic way that you don’t have to
do a anything about. You don’t have to catalyze, it just happens and all of a
sudden you find yourself thinking, ‘Oh yeah, if I do this song in the style of that