Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
Blood and death. That moves me.
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.