Music Interviews

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Matty Healy

Matty Healy“Nostalgia is beautiful”

Sonya Yoncheva

Sonya Yoncheva“Art cannot be lost”

Syd

Syd“I’m ready to move forward”

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello“I didn’t have some big blueprint”

Genesis Owusu

Genesis Owusu“I’ve always known who I am”

Fana Hues

Fana Hues“It feels like completion”

Arlo Parks

Arlo Parks“It feels like what I’m meant to do”

Peaches

Peaches“Every kind of art is a privilege”

Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry“The music speaks for itself”

Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr.“We have to make room for all of it”

Carla Bruni

Carla Bruni“The real matter is the people you love”

Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Cocker“It’s like seeing into the future”

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli“Life has been good to me”

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin“There was a sense of being totally free”

Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane“There’s room for all”

Lianne La Havas

Lianne La Havas“I don’t do it for anybody else”

Lee “Scratch” Perry

Lee “Scratch” Perry“I am that I am”

M.I.A.

M.I.A.“I made it to where that actions begins”

Róisín Murphy

Róisín Murphy“Everything became about music”

Paul Banks

Paul Banks“I feel like they’re evocative enough”

Björk

Björk“There is a dramatic change in the air”

Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus“Music wasn’t a reality for me”

Yukimi Nagano

Yukimi Nagano“I don’t feel any pressure”

Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado“Let’s pull the mask off now”

Wayne Coyne

Wayne Coyne“You get to be a bigger version of yourself”

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys“It can’t be held back anymore”

Grimes

Grimes“I want to be the best”

Black Francis

Black Francis“It doesn’t feel like anger”

Mark Ronson

Mark Ronson“I’m very aware of my place in music”

James Mercer

James Mercer“Everyone was too cool to care”

Yoann Lemoine

Yoann Lemoine“I’m not there yet”

The National

The National“At peace with the darkness”

David Byrne

David Byrne“We did okay”

Alexander Ebert

Alexander Ebert“I was constantly in trouble”

Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright“I don’t preach”

Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson“I’m enough for me”

Neil Young

Neil Young“You have to break out of it”

Johnny Rotten

Johnny Rotten“I love chemical imbalances”

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake“Be in the moment”

Nick Cave

Nick Cave“I don’t think that people want to be like me”

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger“Excess was the order of the day”

Patti Smith

Patti Smith“Rock 'n roll belongs to the people”