You have had a very
prolific career as a musician but what some people might not know is that
you’re also an author. Your first book was Confessions
of the Highest Bidder. Can you tell us a little about its content?
Confessions was basically
a collection of songwords, starting from around 1982, which is when I was in my
nascent stages as a songwriter, I suppose, it follows me through my move to the
states and through several subtle stylistic changes as a writer-that being
said, to the outside reader (i.e. someone who is not me) I think it is apparent
that several things in my writing are constants. I also published a number of
pieces in this book which were not songwords, they are simply poems, some of them
later became songs.
With the perspective of time, what is the piece from
that book that you’re proudest of? Why?
Oh, that’s hard-I actually am looking at it right now,
and my answer cannot be concrete-sorry, I am not a contrarian, but writing for
me carries with it the perspective of my own abstraction so, to answer your
question, there are pieces in there that are very visceral and intuitive, the
bits where I am writing about nature or the asymmetry of nature perhaps, that’s
when I feel I have bypassed the human and am writing instinctively.
