Amazing Phil Oakey quote from to-day's "Guardian"

Phil Oakey, as I might have mentioned somewhere else, os possibly my all-time musick hero. So, when I see him in to-day's Guardian, in a mini-interview, of course, I read it. This bit kind of stuck in my mind, like:

"What was interesting to me about the Kraftwerk and Donna Summer records was the fact that they could not have been made a few years earlier. But to be honest, we were a 70s group; we came out of progressive," says Oakey in answer to the suggestion that the band were an early-morning call for the new decade.

"We were looking around for something that would suit us, and we really liked Genesis, although not as much as we liked Van der Graaf Generator."

Led by Peter Hammill, Van der Graaf Generator were one of the most intellectual progressive bands, throwing hooks and melodies out of the window in favour of lengthy keyboard solos and metaphysical agonising.

"They had an extrovert saxophonist who played two saxes at the same time, and the LPs were massive journeys into your brain. Curved Air was another good band from that era, and we really liked Yes, partly because they started out being a bit glam. Most of the progressive bands, although they had long hair, were absolutely determined to be macho."

I mean fukc, he was already cose to godlike, and now I find out he likes Hammill? I'm thinking maybe i shd start a religion or something......