English - Musician | June 9, 1978 -
Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.
Matt Bellamy
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I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in their life.
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People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.
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I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.
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I can understand why people are bad.
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I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'
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I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.
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Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.
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I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away.
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