Interview With Bif Naked

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S: did any of those hardships inspire parts of your new album?

B: Not in the least. We started writing it a long time ago and it wouldn't mess up the creative and the collaborative endeavors required for song writing. Its kind of like if you are a painter, for example, and you have a cold, it doesn't really effect the canvas you have been working on for the last week and a half - it doesn't suddenly take a turn. For me, I like writing stuff about relationships and loss of love. Yearning. Stuff like that. The sadder the song the better, you know. I love that human condition of despair. That seems to always be the place I enjoy writing from. Being in Chemotherapy really didn't change that at all.

S: Do you have any people who have inspired your music?

B: No. It's definitely more events of the day and by the day, I mean my personal day. 'King of Karma' was written about I guy whom I know who was murdered who I dated in Vancouver. He was, I dunno, maybe shrouded in not so good activities with the Punjabi gangs and the way I discovered it was that I was dating this other guy, who was Persian, and knew a whole bunch of Persian gangsters. Anyway, I found out in a bad way and that definitely inspired a song. I wrote a song on my last record that was about a stalker that affected my life and the lives of my little dogs quite a bit. It's always issues that effect my own personal experience. It's never something abstract - except for 'Spaceman.' Spaceman was about escapism. Basically, wanting to be rescued from your life; a knight in shining Armour song.

S: What type of connection do you hope your fans will have with your music?

B: Well, I don-t write songs that are hard to figure out or hard to relate to. I think that all of us experience the same emotions and I hope they all can relate to the lyrics on some level. Hopefully it's a catchy enough melody that they will be able to remember the words and sing along.

S: When you go back home, people who knew you while growing up, do they treat you any differently now? How do they react to you?

B: Well my father moved around so much I never really grew up anywhere. When we left India, we were really small, we moved to Minnesota - where my parents were from. When I was 5 we moved to Manitoba and when I was 8 we moved to Lexington Kentucky. When I was 13 we moved to Dauphin Manitoba and when I was 15 we moved to Winnipeg. When I was 18 I moved to Vancouver. So I don't have a lot of close contacts from growing up. The ones I did have I still have to this day - almost all of them are from Winnipeg. That's where I came of age and I kept them in my life throughout the whole process, so they don't react too differently to me at all.

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