MuchWest Interview - Terry David Mulligan (TM)
| TM: | Your belief in yourself before everybody else started to believe in you.... was strong? Did you have doubts about whether these songs... |
| CK: | Yeah... you know what? The thing is, I've never been very good at anything else.. and there was something inside me that was saying "Go there... that's working for you.. go there..." So thtat's what I did. Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it. It's horrifying when you have this thing eating at you, and you have these songs that "what the hell am I going to do with this? I've got to do something with this." And if you don't, it's like you're dead. But there's reality - there's Christmas working retail, there's waitressing, there's school, adn all these other things that are sort of normal. "This is normal, this is better, this is safer..." But I don't believe that anymore, because I know upteen people who are in school, and they are doing the exact same thing I was doing with music... you know, doubting it... scared of it... and... it's all a risk really. |
| TM: | One of the things that really caught my eye immediately about the album was the two producers: you have Peter Asher, highly respected, and really on the softer side of the business, and Matt Wallace who can crank 'em out with the best. |
| CK: | I was trained classically, and went through the Conservatory of Music for many years in voice and piano. And I think that side of me that needed to be nurtured and protected... the Mozart, the Beethoven, Chantal... was very much something that Peter reprsesented to me... just a very classic sort of... you know, over the top, if you will... that was restored in him. And the side of me, the rock 'n roll side of me, was represented in Matt Wallace. So I was very much in the center of those two people, I think... It was great. |
| TM: | What does Winnepeg have to do with this music? |
| CK: | Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg. |
| TM: | But in fact, you don't mention it, and for anybody who doesn't know you're from Winnepeg, you're just an artist... |
| CK: | Hey, that's what I am... I'm an artist... <giggle> |
| TM: | You're an artist... that's what you are <laughs> |
| CK: | Ok, that's a very bad word... I don't want to be an artist <still giggling> |
| TM: | When you go out... if you go out as an opening act, will you go out with a rocker, or will you go out with a soft.. |
| CK: | You know, I have thought about it... I would love to go out with anyone from like Our Lady Peace to the Dummies (Crash Test Dummies also based in Winnepeg) ... anyone... I just think what I do, esp. when it's just piano/voice, it's so intimate, and it's so raw. It's got the dogs and butterfly, and the rocker. The raunchy raw thing is there, just being acoustic and very raw. And yet the intimate thing is there... the soft thing.... they're both there... |
| TM: | You are one lucky duck. |
| CK: | Oh...? |
| TM: | But you've earned it. |
| CK: | Oh, thank you very much. |
| TM: | So go out and play... Fly like the wind and have a good time. |
(Transribed by Patrick Chan)