Speaking of pictures – you didn’t want us to take pictures of you. Why are you not comfortable with that?
T: There are just lousy photographers around. Yesterday we worked with a photographer in Paris from a big French music magazine. He just had us doing silly, silly things.
S: Like: ‘You Gonna be the mirror of him, move your hands at the same time!’ This was not us at all. And after that we find those pictures on the internet, forever. If you search the band name, the first picture you see is a stupid one some paper took in Toronto of us on a picnic table. It doesn’t represent the band at all.
Why did you do it then?
S: Because the people who work for us are pushing us to do it. Because everybody is doing that for promotion. Sorry about that.
It’s okay, I totally understand that. You are right, it is not ‘just a photo’ because it’s in the internet forever and I see that it annoys you.
What do ‘hope’ and ‘passion’ mean to you?
T: I think I have the answer to this. (taps on his smartphone)
Are you asking Google right now?
T (plays ‘Careless Whisper’ by GEORGE MICHAEL): That’s hope and passion actually. It’s the best saxophone line in rock’n’roll music. Or softrock music.
That’s both hope and passion?
T: Well, this is passion more than hope. We gonna find hope.
Taylor looks for a song matching hope. The three of us are thinking.
Maybe Everybody Hurts by R.E.M. ‘Hang on.’
S: That would be a good one.
T (absorbed in his phone): I can’t believe it. Can’t find one.
For the record: Taylor couldn’t find a song for hope, just one for passion.
T: I’m hopeless.
We give up. Taylor plays the ‘Careless Whisper’ video again and we end the interview watching it.
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