‘Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy’.
‘Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual’.
‘Sound is almost like a drug. It’s so pure that when it goes in you ears, it instantly does something to you. And you can tell if that’s working for you.’
I cannot pretend to understand his universe, it’s too intimate and personal, too mysterious and enigmatic, but his films are always fascinating experiences, full of non-sense storytelling and weird visual symbolism. And the music has the best part, omnipresent and haunting: who can forget Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams’ or Bobby Vinton’s ‘Blue Velvet’ for ‘Blue Velvet’ or Angelo Badalamenti’s theme for Twin Peaks? Trent Reznor even wrote ‘The Perfect Drug for his film ‘Lost Highway’.
Among many other projects, he recently contributed to the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ album, and he wants to launch a new website (http://www.davidlynch.com) all about music.
But Lynch stays totally humble when he talks about his musician adventure:
‘I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing’, he declared to the LA Weekly this week. A strange thing? I thought nothing was strange for David Lynch.