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It is better to concentrate on the recording to the very end,
to be really present when there is a concert,
to really concentrate on the promotion when it is neccessary.
And most importantly to not think about
how everything will be interpreted.
I just try to do things that surprise me,
and I hope that they will also surprise the others.
During these recordings I felt like a real musician,
not like somebody that has to work,
that has to deliver good takes that will be cut up afterwards.
That was extremely satisfying for me. I would go so far as
to say that these were amongst the most satisfying recordings of my entire life.
We knew the goal, we left open how we would get there.
I am not the same person that I was
when I was 20, 30 or 40 years old.
There is a leitmotiv, a thread,
that I wanted to show in my CD Panorama.
But the 20 or 25 songs that I performed on stage and on the CD
were still not even one tenth of
what I had written and recorded.
The thread is therefore pretty strained.
Before I go into the studio, I like to listen to
what I did before and what reminds me of
what I want to do in the studio.
That way I can see what direction I am about to take and where I was before,
or where I was 10 years ago.
They serve as points of reference to me.
Often I also avoid to repeat myself that way.
When I look at the path that I took,
and everything that I have done,
I find it interesting, with highs and lows.
Things have happened, I have tried things.
I didn't have a typical career for a singer.
I did not find a formula and then continue using that formula.
When I found a formula,
I broke the formula and tried something else.
I always followed the ideas that went through my mind.
He always remains open to new ideas.
When we had arrived at an end, at a good version,
I often thought that the song was finished.
But I noticed that it continued to work in Kents head.
He asked me to do a few things again, differently,
and I must admit that it was indeed much better that way.
But I would not have thought of it myself.
He ist never content with the status quo,
he always tries to find a way to go beyond it.
I keep looking. I do not want to find.
It's like I said in the play with Yannick Jaulin:
If you are searching for yourself, you will find yourself.
But if you find yourself, you get lost.
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