As It Turns Out, As An Adult

Cities Are Made For Enemies To Destroy.

A Record Is Something That Isn't Real Or True. It's Like Cinema. It's A Construction Of Something Hyper-real And Surreal And Unreal All At The Same Time. You Make A Space That Doesn't Really Exist. One Of The Big Joys Of Being In This Line Of Work Is Building The Recorded Versions Of The Songs.

I Was Really Looking Forward To Doing The Thing That I Do - I Basically Appear Just At The Beginning And At The End Of The 'the Glory Of The World' Play - But When I Got To Opening Night, I Started To Get Really Sad That That Was The Last Time I Was Going To See The Play As A Spectator Without Actually Being In It.

I Need To Go Someplace Faraway That Doesn't Have Telephones And Doesn't Have A Record Player And Doesn't Have Movie Theaters And People Walking Down The Street In Order To Not Do Anything.

The Songs Are Not Meant To Be Real Life. They're Meant To Have A Psychic - Rather Than A Factual - Bearing On The Listener. It's Rare That A Song Grounded In Reality Moves Me Because I Don't Feel Like I'm Getting The Whole Story. Songs Are Made To Exist In And Of Themselves, Like A Great James Jones Or Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.