I'm A Big Fan Of Teatowels And

I've Always Been At War With The Guitar. All Vocalists Are Fighting A War With The Electric Rhythm Guitar.

The More Settled I've Become, The More Problematic My Characters Have Become. There Was A Period When I Wrote Sensitive And Gentle Songs And These Came At A Time When Life Was At Its Most Destructive. I Think You Write About What You Need, On Some Level.

I've Had To Try And Find A Way Over The Years Of Writing Narratively That Doesn't Really Require You To Sit Down And Work Out What The Story's About. You're Brought Into A Sort Of Sequence Of Images That Have That Emotional Resonance, But It's Kind Of Irrelevant What The Actual Story Is. It's Taken Me Maybe 13 Albums Or Something To Work That Out.

I Always Thought My Records Were Number One; It's Just The Charts Didn't Think So.

In Getting Older, I Find Myself Becoming Progressively More Ineffectual In A Lot Of Different Ways, And Part Of That Is Down To No Longer Having The Youthful Feeling That What You're Doing Has Any True Impact.