2003 Interview with Peter and Carl

kombusensei:

Interviewer: How do you evaluate each other as a song writer? If there is something one of you doesn’t have and the other has, what is it?

Peter and Carl: …… (Look at each other for a while)

Carl: We are like Bonnie and Clyde.

Peter: For example, people think that John Lennon and Paul McCartney always wrote together, but it’s just a romantic fantasy. In fact, each of them wrote many songs alone and …

Carl: I don’t want to treat what I wrote as something different. I feel it’s what we wrote together. I think that songs we write together are on a higher level than those I do alone. And more powerful.

Peter: I don’t think so. Carl often writes better and more powerful songs when he writes alone, to be honest.

Carl: No, I don’t agree with that.

Interviewer: So which is the case?

Peter: When we are making music together, it’s kind of like there’s magic I can’t explain in words … it’s like we need each other, and songs need the two of us. And that’s our friendship (Peter does a headlock to Carl and kisses him passionately).

Rockin’on, June 2003