Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Robert WyattI don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.
Robert WyattEven if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
Robert WyattI just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
Robert Wyatt