06/02/2010 Quotes: ROBERT WYATT

A French journalist asked if my music was spiritual, and I said, ‘Only in the original sense of spirit meaning breath.’ I am a breathing animal. If anything, I get lower, not higher, in art to work things out, relying on animal instincts to guide me through what sounds right. Beyond that, it’s unknowable, verbally inaccessible. He adds, with characteristic self-effacement: “That’s why I work with musicians.”
Guardian, 2007