But If You're Gonna Dine With Them

The Singing Tells Everybody What To Do Musically.

It's Very Intuitive, The Way That I Approach My Work. I Only Buy Something That Has A Pulse. I May Not Know How I'm Going To Use It, But I Know It Has A Pulse And It Has Multiple Readings - If I Shift It One Way Or Another, It Can Be Read This Way Or It Can Be Read That Way, But Both Readings Are Critical And Very Much Ground The Work.

At School I Was An Anti-magnet For Women.

The Idea Of Songwriting Is A Transformative Thing, And What I Do With Songwriting Is Take Situations That Are Quite Ordinary And Transform Them In Some Way. Apart From Things Like The Murder Ballads, The Songs I Write, At Their Core, Are Quite Ordinary Human Concerns, But The Process Of Writing About Them Transforms Them Into Something Else.

What I Want People To Recognize Is That We Have To Keep Working Together And Take Charge Because We All Have The Same Story.