It’s a progression. It’s like being an angry teenager and growing and finding happiness. Artist mature and they grow and you can’t continue to write what comes out of you if you’re stuck in the past. You have to reflect where you’re coming from, otherwise it’s not genuine. Delerium is doing more pop stuff now, I think it’s truly, genuinely, where they are now: everyone’s grown up and they have a different way of living now. If they don’t write where they’re coming from, than fans would know, people would be able to tell it’s been contrived.

On the other side there’s Front Line Assembly…

They’re opposite side of spectrum. They have a need for two project means. I call Delerium ‘Bill’s feminine side side-project’ <smiles>. In it he’s all pretty and sensitive <laughs>

And sometimes you change back…

Exactly! Lot of artists go back to that sound they had 10 years ago, and people go nuts. Someone said of that 20 year circle, that we go back and improve the past from twenty years ago. That’s interesting…

** during the time of preparation and publishing of this intervew, Kristy signed a deal with big label for distribution of her album. Also, project with Shelley Harland took shape and is developing under the name of Pillofite. More information can be found at www.kristythirsk.com **