told me I'm out of it yes speaking my
name is Inga I'm from Latin radio ah
hello Inga I've been expecting your call
thank you for calling thank you for your
time to giving us for this interview no
problem at first I would like to ask you
have your house everything is good I
just need this can you let me just turn
it up a little bit there we go I read a
lot about you and I saw a lot of your
recordings do you like to listen your
own music and your own recordings oh
sure
I wouldn't do it if I didn't like it I
don't listen to my own recordings every
day of my life but sometimes I listen to
things I go back and listen to some of
my early recordings just to hear what I
played like back then and to listen to
where I am today and to make sure that
I'm getting better all the time you know
I work I'm working on my playing my
skills and my songwriting and everything
I'm working on it all the time and I
think it's a good thing to have a
passion about trying to make things
excellent you know and that's what seems
to be the the main thing that drives me
is to try to do a get better better all
the time you know so you develop you're
playing through your recordings it helps
me to get a picture of where I come from
and how I evolve as a musician and a
songwriter and of course when you play
as much as I do I think you know I play
to practice I play my concerts I play
for my friends and so I'm always playing
so always trying to find new new things
to play and to get some good ideas you
know but what kind of music are you
listening what kind of music do you like
to listen if I want to be inspired by
guitar player
I usually go back and listen to the
great Django Reinhardt or I will listen
to Eric Clapton or John Mayer but mostly
I listen to singers and song
I listen to people whose music touches
the world people like Billy Joel and
Elton John and Eric Clapton people like
that whose whose music everybody loves
and it is very moving for us and so
that's the kind of people I listen to I
don't really listen to too many obscure
things you know what about a physical
music yes I listen to classical music of
course
and I think Chopin's Nocturne some of my
favorite music to listen to and I can
listen to them in the day or in the
night I enjoy both I think Mozart's
violin and piano sonatas are just the
most beautiful music written so I listen
to all different kinds of music I think
the only music I don't really listen to
much is opera oh yeah because it doesn't
touch me but I can appreciate it but you
know I don't have an iPod I don't have
music around me all the time I like to
hear things like the birds the sounds of
nature around me as well I read and that
surprised me that you don't read a music
score how you remember all your songs
all your melodies I write them and I
practiced him and I remember them so if
I everything's okay I haven't forgotten
much but no I had no lessons I had no
real music training I play everything by
my ear and and I just work it out I look
for the sound that I'm looking for I
learned many things about the guitar
just by searching for it you know and
it's a different way to do things but
you know it's just as important as being
able to read the notes alright but I
admire people who can do both you know
there are some people in the world who
can play music and sight read it and and
then they can make something up as well
so you know it's good to have both maybe
but I I just I think I don't have time
to learn too
now I'm too busy playing and writing so
you know I are what I have to do is make
peace with with the fact that this is
the way I am and this is what I must do
instead of trying to do something that
maybe somebody would say what if you
learn to read maybe you can play more
classical music or maybe you can play
things from books or whatever but I
don't know I'm not very interested in
that I'm more interested to write to try
to write good songs and to make people
feel good with my shells how do you fix
these melodies then by the courts or by
my son Peter it's different you know
inget there are many ways to write a
song and that and but it I always look
for real inspiration I wait I wait
patiently for a good idea to come and it
it always does
but I can't force it I must wait and so
that's why I carry one of my guitars in
a in a bag in a case on my back you know
I can walk around the world with it and
many times I write songs at airports you
know because I get an idea and I just
find a spot somewhere where I can sit
quiet and work on this idea and I use my
songwriting skills that I have learned
all through my life to compose music
that tells a story and that goes
somewhere you know there's they're very
precise titles when I spot on titles for
songs do you have always some specific
idea before or music come later
sometimes for instance sometimes I write
a song and I I say what is the music
saying to me you know I don't know why
I'm writing the music the way it is but
I'm just following my instinct and then
when I finish the piece and I I feel
good that this everything is right and
it's complete and I play it then I start
thinking what is what story is this
music telling and then sometimes the
title comes to me perfectly
other times I may have the music for
three or four days and play it and play
it and play it and then one day
something will happen
I'll say that's you know this song when
there's a song called rubies eyes that I
wrote and I wrote the song and I was
playing it now but I had no idea what I
was playing about I just knew it was a
little bit mysterious it was Mona
melodic and it was telling a story about
something deep and I met this little
girl at the airport in Australia and she
was a very old soul in a little young
girl's body and her eyes were so
beautiful and I asked her mother what is
her name and she said her name is Ruby
and I thought that's so powerful it's a
perfect name it's an old name and she's
an old-fashioned girl you know and so I
called the song Ruby's eyes and it
seemed perfect did you saw this old soul
or you felt it I saw it and Charlie