I can’t sit and say, “hey I’m a great environmentalist.” I live pretty minimally at home but on a tour bus it’s diesel, aeroplanes…it’s not environmentally friendly what I do (he laughs). Because when I tour it’s like a massive effect on the environment. Do you feel bad in another type of environment? And nobody can disturb me.Īnd you’ve built your own eco-friendly house made of straw and recycled materials. I’m singing in my head while I’m running. Sometimes I run in the rhythm of the song that I’m writing. And I created a lot of beats around that. I live on a river so I’m always up the river. Xavier Rudd: I’m always outside, ya know. You said you have to sta y fit, like Bob Marley did through his entire career. And we need to have faith in own magic, our own power because we were gifted. As creators of the land, we need to break the model of religious conditioning. I think we need to understand, to return where we where meant to be as human beings in respect of our environment and land. So religion did that to people and for me it’s a bit of a vicious circle. We were told way back that was wrong, that all our cultures and our magic, our energy and connection to the land was wrong and that we need to follow one big group and that was the way that people could be dominated. Those big groups broke our traditional magic as human beings because we have a magic. I can see that religion can help people that have lost something but organized religion seems to be the reason why the people are suffering in the first place. She’s pretty vocal so when she speaks you have to respect that. Xavier Rudd: I don’t know! I have a strong spirit with me. Spirituality plays a big part in your music… Well, you maybe have more of it than most people. So, that knowledge doesn’t come from the ego, it doesn’t come from your own choice, it comes from the old spirit who guides you and if you can’t hear that, if you don’t follow that, then, your life would often be a lot different than it would be if you did. We can live without that but we wouldn’t live our true paths. So we have certain dreams that are part of our nutrients. he points out a bush in front of him), we’re connected to the earth, energetically. Humans have lost touch with that reality that says we’re just the same as that tree ( ed. That’s the biggest human misconception I think. Dreaming can be also the spirit that shapes your existence, shapes the land and our connection to the land as a species because we are off the earth and not just on earth. And in our culture, everything is about dreaming, not like going to sleep and dreaming. I’ve a personal heritage on my father side.

I’m happy to be on my own too, it doesn’t matter. I’m happy to be around the people I love. It took me a little while to get used to. When I started touring, it all was very new for me. I camped a lot, I slept a lot under the stars, listening to nature, surfing a lot. a small surfing town south west of Melbourne), in the bush with nobody around. Xavier Rudd: I grew up in a town near Torquay ( ed. I’ve always been singing songs before I really knew that’s what I was doing. I’ve always sung little melodies about things that were happening around me. Xavier Rudd: I’ve written songs for as long as I can remember, probably younger than 10. You’ve written songs since you were a kid. For example, I remember a concert from Paul Simon’s Graceland tour album to be very special. I was lucky also to see some good shows when I was little. He played Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley… He was playing it during our surfing trips, in the car and he was singing. Xavier Rudd: I was sort of born with music. Among them, a massive aborigine feather that Xavier carefully brushed before the interview. Tanned and toned like a pro-surfer, he wears tiny yellow shorts and a tank top covered by a lot of necklaces. When he walked bare-footed through the press corner of Solidays (the French festival he had been invited to play), Xavier Rudd seems out of place among the stylish journalists. It might sound a bit nutty but that what his 9 albums are made of. When he sits down with his guitar, Xavier just does what the spirit tells him to do. In his own words, “I’m guided by something.” This something? The spirit that explains his entire career as a songwriter. Maybe not in the way you may imagine, but the 37-year-old multi-instrumentalist from Australia has always been driven by an external force. Guided by a force that comes from his father’s heritage, Xavier Rudd plays music because “he has been chosen to do so.” An interview - somewhere above the ocean between Bob Marley and a red-tailed black cockatoo. Now 37, the Australian songwriter has released 9 different albums that all have one thing in common: the spirit involved.

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