Ron: And also you're playing piano now - how's that going?
Irene: That's going good, my time is very limited but my piano teacher also works with me, and so we write music, we've been writing stuff together. It's like both ways now, so when I have a question when we're working I go, how do you do this because I always get stuck? And he'll sit there and tell me.
Ron: That's probably the best ways to learn.
Irene: Yes, so I'm working and taking lessons at the same time. Because I don't have the flow of the fingers but it's the knowledge of having to write it. And where to go from there, and being able to tell a piano player OK, that sounds cool but I need to go the next C, can you go to a sharp? Do you know what I'm saying?
Ron: Yes.
Irene: What's the next key that you would go to or something like that? Because sometimes you can sing it and they're like what? Let me tell you, I'm tone deaf, I can't sing shit.
Ron: So aside from Madonna, because that would be the obvious answer, is there a dream artist you'd like to produce one day?
Irene: Ferry Corsten.
Ron: Ferry Corsten?
Irene: Yes.
Ron: One last question - you are known for your large and loud laugh, that's like your trademark.
Irene: What about it?
Ron: Anything you'd like to say about it, in that respect?
Irene: I can't help it, God gave me a gift.
Ron: I think God gave you many gifts, Irene.
Irene: Well thank you, I guess I was the baby of the family.
Special thanks to John Trepp at Syntax for arranging this interview.
