The Earthly Power Sucks Shadowed Milk From

From The Pain Come The Dream From The Dream Come The Vision From The Vision Come The People From The People Come The Power From This Power Come The Change.

I Think It Is The Weak And The Young And The Minorities That You Need To Look After To Get A Healthy Creative Environment - To Get A Lot Of Choices, A Lot Of Different Styles Of Music, A Lot Experimental Stuff That Everyone Else Feeds Off.

I Try When I'm Writing To Fill My Head And My Ears With All Sorts Of Stuff And Then Let It Settle And Filter Through. At A Certain Point It Seems Like Fruitless Activity Because You're Taking A Lot Of Time And Not Seeming To Get Anything. And Then, Slowly, You Realize You've Actually Digested Elements And That Your Thinking Is Being Freed Up And The Way You Build Up Compositions Is Changed As A Result Of What You've Been Listening To.

Once The Flames Begin To Catch The Wind Will Blow It Higher, Oh Biko, Biko.

When We Started Od2 In 1999, We Were Really Expecting To Work More With Independents And So On Because The Major Labels Were Spending Millions On Their Own Pressplay And Equivalents Online, Which Haven't Been Very Successful.