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Today it's September morning, late September and
I'm sitting in my favorite place.
Which is about 1 kilometer from where I live.
I come here very often to think,
sit on this very place and
Just think about different ideas and
Usually start my day by coming here.
Then go for a walk to the forest, spend a lot of time there, and
It's really great to have this kind of environment
Close to your own home, because you can go there any time you want.
Especially me because the way I set up my life.
And that enables me to pretty much dictate my own schedule.
I spend a lot of time in the nature, it's very important for me
that's also the reason why we are filming this on this very place
I do get inspiration
To music from nature a lot. In fact I don't think I would be able to write music
If I wouldn't have any connection to the nature.
That is, for me a necessity.
To have this and whenever I go, composing process.
I spend even more time in the nature to connect with it.
Composing is more to me, about listening,
than actually composing.
I listen to the notes that I play,
in my head or wherever they come from.
From that It comes particular a song or theme.
And I think that nature has a lot to do with this.
Because when you connect to the nature,
It gives you something, but you cannot connect to the nature from my opinion,
In a way that you force it.
You really have to respect it,
and if you respect it, It will give you
A lot of things for your life. At least in my case this has been, Always.
All the birds here,
A wonderful scenery. It Inspires me that when I go
To my studio or wherever I'm composing
The songs just come. For me composing is very easy.
Maybe because of the connection to the nature.
There are three words that means a lot to me. Those are:
love, work and knowledge in this particular order.
And I think these are the ones that..
Govern our life's.
And, if love governs your life.
If your work governs your life and knowledge. Whatever you mean with love, work and knowledge.
I don't think you can go wrong, but what i've learned is;
not to try to save the world anymore. Because i've tried.
I have tried, in my arrogance,
to save the world. I wrote so many songs about,
mankind, society and how people should live.
It took me 20 years for myself to get to the place where I'm now. Where i'm not preaching
anymore.
I have no more needs to tell people how to live their lives.
I was diagnosed in 2004. When I went trough a nervous breakdown, which was gradual development
According to the therapy, psychotherapy for about 8 years. And when my neurotic structure
actually
Broke down. Which means.
What they called nervous breakdown.
And I was hospitalized,
from that moment, my recovery started and it lasted for 10 years.
And I have dealt with everything in my life.
What was happened to me my fathers suicide, all the things.
And I always say that ''Would you feel empathy towards someone who is in the wheelchair
Compared to somebody who was bipolar disorder?''
You don't feel empathy to a person that looks normal,
but you feel empathy towards people who is in wheelchair.
So, my illness has been very tough for my loved ones,
and there's nothing I can do. Except try to take care of my self.
In the best possible way. Which I'm doing.
I have to live with this illness for the rest of my life.
Being reclusive means that, I have 3 people in my life that keep me here.
One is my wife. We've been together for 13 years, and she's
really a person who has done so much for me and kept me here.
With her positive attitude and understanding.
Everything i've done and all the stupidity i've done.
Understanding, its not an easy thing to be together with an artist.
It's very difficult. To find something like that which is obviously your soulmate it's
important.
And if you're blessed to find that then you're lucky.
I did, I was, and i certainly don't take it for granted anymore.
I did before.
Second person is my daughter.
Who is, very special person to me. We have very close connection.
And we call each other daily and I visit her and we have coffee and talk about things.
She's singing, taking lessons.
She's one of those people who's also bring me tremendous joy and,
She's like a friend. It's very strange but, I consider her as my friend.
The third person is my mother, who is for me a true hero. Because,
what she has gone through in her life, like
When my father killed himself.
I really don't understand how she survived with two small kids. Me and my brother.
How she managed those years.
But she did, and she's a living proof that you can actually survive almost anything.
Avalon is like a vehicle for me.
With Which I can express my self,
with almost anyone, any musician I like
who is available, in any settings and I can tell stories in music and I see this form
also evolving.
One of my biggest dream is to write a musical.
So maybe it's something in between, If I'm going to write musical in the future, I don't know.
But I know for sure that I love to do this.
After this video blog we're gonna demonstrate and document the entire making of the whole
Avalon II album.
So, you are able to follow the entire process of making this album.
From composing to the very last stage and we are talking about 6 months. So,
I hope you will enjoy this. We will put a lot of work into this and we care.
And I think it's going to be an interesting journey for me,
and for the musicians, and also for you.
So that's what the Avalon means for me.
It's my future.