Interview with the excellent Martyn Pedler is up over at the excellently named atomic threat, and it's been my favoritest interview for a while:

MP: You say that you've just given yourself over to the process and influences at work. It sounds like the pop-version of possession through automatic writing – like those who claim that the ghost of Dickens is moving their hand so he can finish his work. How would you describe your relationship to these influences? Homage? Remix? Theft?

MF: Well, the mystery of the process is the mystery of the process, and to take the ride you close your eyes and leap. Having the influences in your pocket is like doing homework; the process is like the final exam, maybe.

My relation to that stuff, though-- I'm not wholly certain it's my place to define that. I know that my relation to the influences, personally, ranges from one humbled by the works of masters, to a fan's adoration and adulation, to a neophyte journeyman's urge to reverse engineer it all and see how it works.

Whether it's homage, or remix, or theft are, I suspect, verdicts more appropriate for an audience to make; what I can contribute to their deliberations would be to humbly point out it's all born of that adoration and adulation-- the only real authorial intent I'm comfortable discussing is that I hope Casanova celebrates and honors every blip on its long and winding genome.