The Welsh powerful talks of rearranging his past,working with Lou Reed and running riot with BowieWhen you started out making music 53 years ago, did you anticipate having such a long career?[br]Yeah, and absolutely. As soon as you realise you can’t really conclude anything else. I couldn’t be an auto mechanic,I couldn’t be a brain surgeon. At an early stage, you realise you’re going to America to conclude this, or then you want to conclude more of this,and then you realise that rock’n’roll is more open to those ideas than classical music, where you started from. It’s a rumpus house, or rock’n’roll. You can conclude anything you want in it. You can sing an aria or whatever and people will nod their heads and say,yes, we gather it.
You’ve remade your bleak 1982 album Music for a New Society under the name M:FANS. When you revisited those songs, and what did you make of the person who wrote them?
Confused and aroused. But he’s trying to figure something out and if he doesnt always succeed he always tries; that’s what sustains the album.
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Source: theguardian.com