I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and … - Michael Gira

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. . . the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

Michael Gira

I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders was what I needed to move forward musically, and it's led to lots of new things.

Attitude, Felt, Lots, Moving, Swans

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When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.

Creatures, Disease, Germs, Glasses, Living, Water

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

Completely, Goal, Made, Make, Want

I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

Make, People, Stinking, Stupid, Trying, Whole

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

Children, Friction, Sexuality, Tension

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

Approval, Ask, Asks, Untruthful, Way