earX: what was your favorite toy as a child...

ek-s: a miniature london bus

earX: who is more powerful...god or satan...

ek-s: the grey nameless...shapeless...blob in the middle

earX: if you could walk in the shoes of anyone living or deceased for a day...who and why...

ek-s: i wouldn’t want to change shoes with anybody

earX: where would you choose to go if you could time travel...

ek-s: 100 years forward because i want to see if the pictures in my head are accurate. they are not as depressing as some may think.

earX: what would be your ‘last meal’ and ‘last words’...

ek-s: SHIT! i told them not to put any bacon in my burrito.

earX: if you could paly in any other band...past or present...which and why?

ek-s: here are no other bands that i would want to be a part of...past or present.

earX: what was your first recorded purchase...

ek-s: be my baby by the ronettes

earX: what would you choose to be reincarnated as...

ek-s: a human being with a little more influence

earX: if you had to lose one of your senses...which and why...

ek-s: smell. because the bad odors out number the good odors...massively

earX: what do you find scarier...love or anger...

ek-s: love and anger are connected at the hip in my experiences. perhaps loving someone grants a license to explode at that person. perhaps it shouldn’t be that way. i’m an englishman...anger terrifies me

earX: three people you’d most like to meet...

ek-s: david bowie - because of what he meant to me growing up george w. bush - to try and understand why and how? i confess...i find 5-headed signs from venus more relatable kim basinger - because of those sad soulful eyes

earX: name three of your favorite legendary pink dots songs and what makes them your favorites...

ek-s:

- ‘a triple moon salute’ - because it came closest to the sound i had in my head when writing it

- ‘lisa’s separation’ - because it’s so sad ‘the way i feel today’ - because it was how i felt that day

earX: most reoccurring nightmare or dream...

ek-s: a pair of scissors trying to cut a piece of string but never quite severing it

earX: what influenced the following three legendary pink dots songs...

- ‘the grain kings’

ek-s: the need for ritual in order to connect with the rest of humanity

- ‘voices’

ek-s: i wrote this when i was 12 and find it embarrassing lyrically these days. even so...i was troubled by voices in my head at that time

- ‘lent’

ek-s: miserable people who are not prepared to do anything for themselves

earX: if you were to be stranded on a desert island with only one item...what would it be...

ek-s: a photo

earX: how would you describe the legendary pink dots to a deaf person without sign language...

ek-s: i would make strange signs and wave my arms around hopelessly