During a recent sit-down with ChartAttack prior to his opening gig for Coldplay at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, Ashcroft rattled off a host of songs by Al Green, Marvin Gaye and The Beatles as part of his own personal pop vanguard.
“I was saying to Chris Martin that the difficulty with us [as musicians] is that we are, essentially, just painters. But unlike most painters, we have to keep looking back at our work all the time and hear it reflected back to ourselves. Whereas normally, you finish a canvas and ‘Fuck! It’s gone.’
“This game is all about survival, and it’s not about this one song, or these 10 songs I’ve written. I’m writing music all the time in my head when I’m walking down the street. I’ve been doing it for 17 years, whether I’ve been making a record or not. Music is my survival.”
Source: chartattack.com
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