What do you do when you’re not making music?
I draw a lot. I hang out with people a lot too, I’m a deeply social creature, I love having people over and cooking and talking about stuff. Sometimes when I’ve been making music for too long I run out of things to write about because I haven’t been living or thinking about anything outside of the ideas I already had, so I go do some living for a bit, get some ideas in.
What is your idea of a modern artist?
Isn’t a modern artist anyone who was making fine art between like 1945 and 1989?
Do you have any goals as far as music is concerned?
I actually don’t. I mean obviously I wanna finish Organs, and there are some cool collaborative projects I’ve got planned for while I’m in America, but I’m really enjoying living in the moment and doing what feels right at the time.
Do you have any advice for budding musicians?
Yeah, listen to music. Listen to music all the time. Read about music. Think about music, think about it while you’re listening to it. But most of all, write music. Record it. Play music with your friends. Find the heart of what draws you to music and sit inside it, embody it until you love it enough that playing music all day every day isn’t tiresome but sustaining, and don’t worry about your progress. Keep going. Getting better is an inevitability if you do something enough. You don’t have to devote your entire life to music, but viewing everything through a creative eye is something that will improve anyone’s life. I’m sure of it. Get Tom’s EP Here. iTunes
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