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Songs Inspired by 'The Passion of The Christ'
'The Passion of The Christ' - official movie site
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Songs Inspired by 'The Passion of The Christ'
'The Passion of The Christ' - official movie site
MQ: How do you see technology affecting music creation and distribution? One of the press conferences [at GMA week] is about downloading copyrighted materials. . .
LL: I saw something on the TV last night actually that said the Christian market is hugely being pirated. The president of GMA said I'm surprised because Christians aren't supposed to behave like this.
MQ: The press conference yesterday said one in ten teens think it is okay.
LL: I think its crazy because you have something there that is accessible to young people and you have to tell them 'no, you can't do it.' It's crazy you know. They have to weather the storm through this because eventually they'll find a way to regulate it but right now its just finding its feet.
MQ: How do you see technology overall affecting music? Will it help or hinder?
LL: I think helping. Because I think will get such more of an instant feedback from their fans and from the Internet hearing stuff and not having to go through guys with suits who see money before it reaches the community. They actually get good feedback from fans and from people. They have more of an acccess to fans without having to go through middleman who say you have to go to this crowd and this crowd.
MQ: What music or CDs have you listened to recently?
LL: Well, last night I listened to a really good CD by Waylon Payne who is Jody Payne's son. Jody Payne has played with Willie Nelson. He's the guitarist for Willie. He's a gorgeous son. I listened to his CD last night. I think mainly I've been listening to Jessie Colter. I'm a big Jessie Colter fan. She did an album with Waylon called White Mansions which is not really known but is a fantastic conceptual album. I tried to put this album together as a concept album - which is the sort of record you listen to from beginning to end. Its not one where you jump from one track to the next. Its the whole record representing a journey. White Mansions is a concept album that Jessie did with Waylon and Steve Cash and its a fantastic record.
MQ: Have you had a mentor? Someone you've looked to for advice or direction during your career?
LL: I have actually. I would have to say Bono who is a very good friend. He's been a very big mentor of mine. In a way, I'm a mentor of his too musically. We share a lot musically.
MQ: One of the songs is from THE GHOST WHO WALKS. I thought it was interesting how that appeared on the CD.
LL: You know his wife [Bono's] had told me when I first did the record I went to see them and we talked a lot about music as we always do. We talked about Delores who is Irish and a friend of theirs too. A couple of weeks after that she called me and said, 'You know I've been playing this song and you should hear it'. So eventually she played it to me down the phone. I said I can't hear it very well but it sounds nice you know. She told me about Neil McCormick. We went to school with him. She sent me the CD she had. It was not mixed or anything. He had just done this album in itself. I had just come from a screening of the PASSION and I put it in the car. It was so weird because obviously you see the film - you see the Holy Mother how she stays with Christ. It just breaks your about people who have to go through watching a child suffer. 
The song was called STAY OUT OF HARM'S WAY. It was almost like it just so rung true with what I had just seen. Even the line 'YOU'VE GOT TO BIND UP YOUR SCARS AND FACE ANOTHER DAY'. Its about getting back on your feet and walking on - which is exactly what Christ did. It just was amazing to listen to it after seeing the film. It just meant so much. Even though when I called Neil and spoke to him and asked him what that song was bout - because to me after seeing the movie all I could think of was seeing those images - he had actually written the song about a friend whom he thought was going to die of a drug overdose. And so, it was for her. The song was so universal. I saw the song about Christ while he meant it for a girl dying from a drug overdose.