Everyone Wants To Feel That They Matter.

Everyone Wants To Feel That They Matter.

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.

As People Buy Less And Less Records, It's Become More And More Important For Me To Spend More And More On Them - To Lavish That Much More Attention On Them. The Bad Seeds Were Always Quite Protective And Old School, But Grinderman Has Opened Us Up To Do Anything And Be Shameless. We're Not So Precious About It.

I Love Being Manipulated By What I See. I Love Weepies And Romantic Comedies Where You're Reaching For The Kleenex At The Right Moment.

When I Start To Write A Song, I Initially Fall Into Patterns And Creative Habits That Are Familiar, And Because They're Familiar, They Sound Convincing. It's Important For Me To Not Pursue Those Ideas, Because I've Already Done Them, But To Find Ideas That Are Different And Feel Strange To Write And Disconcerting To Write.