Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music. ↗
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas. ↗
Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been. ↗