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Charlotte Gainsbourg is not the only one who had to tame her dark side.
Thom Yorke, Radiohead's singer, is also in the habit of dark thoughts.
I definitely go through phases where I can’t create for a while.
But i'm not sick or lying in bed blah blah..
It's not a medical thing.
It's just simply part of who i am.
I think it's also a part of the fact that i absorb stuff
and then i have to deal with it.
I can't explain any better that, it really sort of scares me.
I don’t mind the frame of mind I’m in as long as I’m still able to create.
But if I go through a phase where I’m unable to create,
when everything I write is *** then I’m scared. And it can last for six months.
Most beautiful sounds are in melancholic ones.
Even in disco tunes,
i can hear melancholic sounds, myself.
The Donna Summer tune, "I Feel Love"
That melody is a very melancholic melody.
But it's only the fact that the machines are punishing against the long notes
that makes you think it's not melancholic.
I mean the lyrics aren't melancholic.
The sort of sound of Giorgio Moroder was doing is very dark indeed.
The best disco or dance music is dark man!
Once melancholic, then always melancholic?
Thom Yorke has so cultivated the image of a grand depressed man
that nobody can imagine him laughing in public or displaying himself to the audience
and this is something that he sometimes regrets.
We were at the Mercury Prize ceremony yesterday.
They were rolling the red carpet and then Nigel and I went like:
"Oh! Red carpet, how exciting!" Then he was like:
"Yeah but you... you are going to come by the artist door, you won't take the red carpet, right?"
and i said "Yeah yeah... You're probably right!"
I was trapped! I'm sure i would have fun to walk on the red carpet,
But i've build such a reputation that makes it impossible!
The red carpet? No way! I'm far away from this. Whatever.