Most Screen Violence Is Tedious.

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.

I Was About 12 Years Old And I Was Sitting Watching The Television And It Was Some Kind Of Talent Show, You Know, And On Marches This Monkey, This Ape, In A Pair Of Red-checked Trousers With A Little Matching Jacket Holding A Ukelele And It Started Jigging Around Playing It, And It Was Looking Straight Into The Camera, Straight At Me, And I Remember Thinking, That's It, That'll Be Me, You Know, That'll Be Me.

'inspiration' Is A Word Used By People Who Aren't Really Doing Anything.

I Was Reading The Bible A Lot Through My 20s, Mostly The Old Testament, Just Because I Was Knocked Out By The Language And The Stories. I Felt That The God Being Talked About There, Who Was This Insane, Vindictive Patriarch - It Was Kind Of Thrilling, And Titillated Something In Me At The Time.

People Often Can't Separate, Or Can't Understand, That To Be Funny Is To Be Serious; It's A Way Of Pulling People In And Not Scaring Them Off. I Think A Lot Of The Funny Stuff, Underneath It, There's A Deep Anxiety Going On.