I'm Not Saying This In A Condescending

Musicians Are At The Bottom Of The Creative Pyramid And Authors Are At The Top, And Many People Think It's Unacceptable For Someone To Attempt To Jump From The Bottom To The Top Of The Pyramid.

It's An Australian Thing To Be Dismissive. We Find That Endearing. Americans Don't. They Believe What You Say.

When You've Been Initiated, You Can Stand In The World Differently. And I Think It Is Up To All Of Us, We Can Have Cheerleaders, We Can Have Supporters, But It Comes Down To Us As Individuals, How Do We Now Proceed? Do We Have The Tools To Proceed?

No Wonder Sorrow Doesn’t Smile Much. No Wonder Sadness Is So Sad.

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.