So I never approach singing with any interest in melody. I approach singing as a naturalistic, poetic vehicle more than a musical expression. I am interested in mimicking thought processes. I am interested in the voice as an expressive tool, and in music as a skeleton on which to hang the sound of poetic vision. Sound and the sound of musical activity is more important to me and more expressive than the musical activity itself.
Melody can take too long and can be too simplistic to accurately reflect the human experience.
Your albums have always strong concepts, strong ideas behind them. I am a pointillist. Every song I've ever recorded is a separate dot of color on a larger canvas. Every album is a focused spray of such dots. The impact of each dot is important, sure, but the image on the canvas as it is revealed is far more important.