The highlights from the Oor-interview:

• Smokers Reflects is about the 5-6 minutes of thoughts floating through your head when you smoke a cigarette
• the title comes from David Hockney from the pro-smokerslobby
• Tom considers Smokers Reflect as his State of the union
• Smokers Reflect and Eternal Woman are representing his now, he couldn't have written these songs 5 years ago
• they wanted an uptempo album that they could play live
• Six songs didn't make it to the album, but we shouldn't expect these popping up on the next album
• Maria Schneider is about eternal beauty and eternal youth
• It's a song about the fact that you still haven't found love when you're 35
• Vantage Point investigates the impact of what western media are presenting as a bad world
• Popular Culture is about the impact American culture has on our lives. It's not our culture, but it influences us a lot
• He wrote Eternal Woman after he saw a Pixies-documentary
• The title is inspired by a painting he got from his mother, Hans Bellmer
• Favorite Game was titled Re-fuck first
• According to Tom the lyrics from the first version were more pornographical
• Slow is a reaction on Oh Your God and Favorite Game
• Slow is a song about Mauro. Tom admires Mauro for the distance he can take from things
• John Denver also wrote a song about Buckminster Fuller (What One Man Can Do)
• He learnt about Fuller when he had plans to rebuild his appartment. He contacted an architect and that guy started to tell about Fuller
• Is A Robot criticises people who think they are alternative but in fact are as preprogrammed as the people they're reacting at
• He liked the speech Marleen Vanderpoorten gave when he received his award from the Flemish parliament
• Vantage Point is more a group-album than the previous ones
• Tom wants to make the next album a real group album
• He says Pocket Revolution was not their best album, but it sure is their most important one, because they survived it
• He's aware of the influences and impulses he got from his mother and father