Chords for Nico - rare NZ interview (1985)

Well, Nico, first of all, we were talking a moment ago and you mentioned [G] that you didn't
like sound checks and you couldn't remember doing them with the velvets.
Is that right? _ _
Quite so, yes. _ _ _
We never, never, ever [F] _ _ rehearsed either.
_ _ The [G] only time we did _ a rehearsal at
the factory, the police arrived and stopped it because it was disturbing _ 20 blocks around. _ _ _ _
You started off with Chelsea Girl singing other people's songs but very quickly moved
into writing your own.
I was wondering how you got into that.
_ [E] _ [F] _ [Gbm] _ [Ab] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ Why don't you just leave that out?
I [G] can't relate to it at all.
They weren't my own songs
and it doesn't interest me.
_ Talk about it.
But they are now.
They're your own songs.
I was just
wondering how you got into _ _ writing your own songs.
_ _ It took some persuasion from _ _ _ _
_ _ _ a friend of mine, _ _ _ _ _ Jim Morrison, who said I should write songs.
I just started writing songs.
_ _ _ _ _ _ How did you?
Sometimes somebody has to tell you what to do. _ _
You've kept a professional
association with John Cale.
I can't say if it's been beneficial.
I'm trying to make it _ _ _ somehow,
_ even if it's not perfect because of the vocals.
_ _ Who was that vocalist?
_ I just think that I could
have done better.
_ _ John always says, well, you should just make it a performance _ _ sort of thing. _
_ _ _ Well, because of the absence of _ my movie making, _ _ _ _ _ _ it had become obsessive that I had to call it
camera obscura. _ _ _
Movie camera was missing. _ _ _
_ _ _ It was only a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ mood, yes. _
I don't like to be in a studio, _ _ _
a recording studio.
I'd much rather make live recordings _ because [C] sometimes our concerts are
pretty good.
They're always better.
The best ones are [F] always better than [G] recording in a studio. _ _
_ [Ab] There were periods of your career where you've [Gm] virtually dropped from sight,
certainly as far as making [Ab] records goes.
What's been [G] happening in those times?
I had been making movies.
I switched from music to movies, _ _ _ French avant-garde, _ _ _ _
and strictly like Fritz Lang. _ _
_ _ All these people were in their own time,
_ von Storheim, von Sternberg.
They were in their own time.
That's what he does in his own time.
It's not very, _ _ _ how do you say, commercial, _ _ but it will be recognized _ _
[F] as I [G] move on _ _ to descent or
_ ascent. _
_ _ _ Would you have preferred perhaps more commercial success over the years? _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] I don't really want to.
I [F] can't stand that word commercial.
_ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ Commerciality.
I [Gm] mean, _ _ [F] it'll be on a larger scale, [G] yes, I hope, _ for everybody involved.
_ _ _ I mean, within our [Em] group [Gm] or _ _ within _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ the audience.
_ _ But I wouldn't really want to. _
I'm very selective about my audience.
I would be ashamed to have an audience like,
_ _ what's his name? _
_ Neil Young, [F] Neil _ [Abm]
Diamond.
_ _ [Fm] _ [A] That's the kind of, [Db] worst kind of audience I [G] can imagine. _ _ _