I Don't Feel I'm Thrown Around By

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 Am Not Interested In Anything That Doesn't Have A Genuine Heart To It. You've Got To Have Soul In The Hole. If That Isn't There, I Don't See The Point.

The Editing Of A Song Is Largely What Makes The Song For Me And I Think That Actually If I Had Started Going Like 'i Want You To Burn' It Would Have Pinned That Song Down To A Particular Thing And Made That Song A Smaller Idea Than What It Is. By Leaving That Off It's Much More Open, Broader.

It's Always A Risky Business Inviting Somebody On Stage. You Never Know What They're Going To Do. I Try To Avoid Letting People Join Me Onstage Because It Can Be Very Distracting, And Overly Theatrical.

It Was About The Preciousness Of That, And How They Viewed Those Birds As Art, As Something Valuable. I Didn't Care One Way Or Another Back Then, But Now, Thinking About My Grandparents - Who Are Still Alive But Getting Older - I See The Birds As Sort Of Time Capsules. Now I Go Home During The Holidays And They Hold A Lot Of Weight In Terms Of Nostalgia And Memory. Now They Mean Everything.