---In just over a year you have released an album with your band, Da Souza, and two EPs, one of them solo, in addition to a single with Renaldo & Clara. Do you feel you are in a particularly creative moment or has the time you have spent at home in recent months influenced it?
---I don't think it has been a particularly creative moment, I have followed my usual rhythm. It is true that lately I have published more, but I think it has more to do with the moment my projects are in, rather than with creativity.
---Do you compose thinking in cycles?
---Normally yes, it helps me to organize my ideas and plan the following months in general. Now we are starting to prepare songs for the next Da Souza album, everything is still very embryonic. In principle, it should be released in spring 2022.
---This rhythm of composition and production - in addition to working in the studio with Reïna and Maria Jaume - is it a commitment to dedicate yourself full-time to your music?
---It has coincided a bit now with a period of quite a lot of activity. Even so, to dedicate yourself full-time to your music, here where we live, I don't know if doing a lot of work is enough. Being a hard worker is an important condition, but there are more variables.
---Your solo project seems to have gained momentum. What does it give you that you didn't find with Da Souza?
---In general, it allows me to keep doing things when with the group, for one reason or another, it's not feasible to do them. Lately it has helped me to explore a different format from what I had always worked with: trying to do something simpler, without a band, going to the root.
---Do I understand that the confinement and the crisis in the sector make you think about more ways to play?
---That was a bit why I thought about doing concerts in this reduced acoustic format. It adapts well to the limitations of pandemic concerts. Having gigs always worries a bit, because that's where you can get economic returns. In any case, I can't complain about how it has gone for me, with things being the way they are.
---With this scenario you describe, have you felt especially vulnerable as a musician these past months?
---There have been moments when it seemed that the first thing to do without were concerts, theaters, etc. Afterwards, through protesting, safe culture and such, I think there was a bit of awareness and the situation improved. I hope that now all the big festival movement doesn't negatively impact the smaller circuit, which had already shown that it was very well organized and had no risks.
---Following your trajectory, with each song it seems you take a step forward as a pop composer. What is the ideal song you want to make nowadays?
---Ideally, I would like to make a song that can become a popular classic. The typical song that everyone knows and that when you pay attention, lyrics and music, is very well made. Also, that it is simple, but that it hides more fantasy than it seems at first glance. Almost nothing... but it seems like a good ideal to me.
---About ideal songs, I don't know if you've heard the latest Magnetic Fields album, but it's full of micropoems and it's fantastic. How do you approach writing the lyrics for your songs?
---I haven't heard it, but I love Magnetic Fields. For the lyrics, I don't have a single method. Sometimes I start from a clear idea, or I want to talk about a topic. Other times it's a more automatic process of putting phrases together, more aesthetic. Lately I've also tried writing in a more narrative way, and that's another world. I don't like to always write following the same procedure, because I get bored.
---What songwriter of today interests you?
---I really like how Quim from Ludwig Band writes. They make songs that could be classics. They always have a very good ultimate idea and an execution with fantasy.
---Do you think it's possible to succeed without making certain concessions as a composer?
---I have no idea. The keys to success escape me, but I believe there's a significant percentage of chance.
---Evocation in pop seems important to me. Is maximum beauty always the goal?
---Not always, I think it depends on the song. Sometimes the goal is to tell things as they are, or to stir, and this doesn't always have to be beautiful, not even in pop.
---Listening to your albums, there's always a trace of the music you've listened to at that moment. What are you listening to now that we might trace in your next songs?
---It's been a while since I've been hooked on anything. In fact, I've just had Covid and have been practically 15 days without listening to music. I go through phases a lot: I obsess over something for a season and then I can go weeks or months without listening to almost anything.