26 Quotes by Arto Lindsay

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn’t have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn’t think I’d do another one.

We recorded that trio and it’s out on the Knitting Factory label. I’ve got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I’ll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn’t hear it.

My parents were missionaries – I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.