Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.
Petra HadenPeople want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.
Petra HadenI like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.
Petra HadenHarmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.
Petra HadenThe Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.
Petra HadenI didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.
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