鄭 東和: In around 1987, we had a kind of synchronicity. We were like a family, but after a while, we stopped connecting musically, we stopped connecting physically: I ended up becoming ill and we stopped connecting mentally. I had a kid, I said goodbye, and came back to Japan. We did well, together, with Deee-Lite, but now that bond is broken.
I’m not going to name names, but with some artists, I’ll like them, personally, but find their management really annoying. I thought, "I don’t want to deal with people like that anymore," so I decided to go for easy musicians with easy management.
Lots of people I know said they stopped listening to certain music, after 3/11. Those tunes they play, in clubs, with electronic siren sounds: the reality has become a lot scarier. I just, naturally, stopped playing stuff like that. I didn’t feel guilty, about partying, but my mood had changed. Since 3/11 – and this is just personally-speaking – I’ve only been wanting to listen to music that’s very good, very soulful.
