Why a Yoko Ono tribute album?
So many conversations I would end up in with people, they were under the impression that the challenging avant-garde work is the end-all be-all of what her music was about. And certainly, that’s a part of it. But it in no way calculates the breadth of the kind of musical output that she was responsible for. Over the years, I’ve been like, “No, no, no, no, you got it wrong,” trying to point people towards these other records. [With Ocean Child] I finally found a constructive place to put these frustrations, which was, “Let’s compile a number of artists who were fans of Yoko’s music, and let’s try to present a sampler of songwriting for people who might be not familiar with it.” That was kind of the gist of the project in the very beginning.