Nigel Parry, December 2000. Sherri Muzher interviewed Nigel Parry in December 2000, after the album was put together. I certainly did that much. You get to experience a lot of different cultures without necessarily being part of them. With this upbringing as an observer, I naturally gravitated towards journalism, but music remains the most direct way to express emotional experience.
Music is journalism of the heart.
Songs that don't differentiate between the love you feel for a person from the love you feel for a people. It's all about passion, and trying to do things in a way that matters. There are also some, um, shall we say 'alternative' love songs on the album and a song about the whole process of performing. The four songs about Palestine are unusual. The rights you lose in one part of the world are lost simultaneously everywhere.