A biography for Tom Jenkinsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm basically a musician.”
“Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.”
“Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.”
“Because there's so much stuff I don't release.”
“This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.”
“I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.”
“I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.”
“Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.”
“The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.”
“Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.”
“I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.”
“Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.”