Fred Frith

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound. ”

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well. ”

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets. ”

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. ”

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for. ”

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time. ”