My thing is playing with words and the subtleties in the language, and if you only listen to the song once then I'm fucked because if I haven't hit you with all the subtleties the first time then you you're never going to get it. I listen to Bob Marley everyday and hang on every word hearing new things each time going 'damn, man, I never thought of it that way before' and suddenly that one line means the whole world to me for that day. And so that's what I'm trying to do with my music now. I used to listen to the radio a lot - Parliament, Marvin Gaye, Commodores. I never used to listen to The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron, and it was not until I started writing my own lyrics that I began to use the 'talking style'.
Good bands borrow, great bands steal.
Everything that can be done has been done before. Chicago especially, that is real soulful and celebrates the community that is dancing and its not just about the music. So, I try to write songs that are important to me, are personal and are intimate. This is Spearhead's first time in Sydney bar a small promotional tour at the beginning of the year which saw them do a Radio Skid Row benefit, but adding to that the Heroes tour earlier on, and the contact Michael keeps with people in the community here, he is not an ignorant foreigner. The soil is never going to be returned to its natural state the way it is now.