People Think I'm A Miserable Sod But

Hamlet Got A Gun Now.

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.

Sometimes The Song Isn't Strong Enough To Contain The Fiction, Because Memories Are Fictions.

Love Songs Come In Many Guises And Are Seemingly Written For Many Reasons – As Declarations Or To Wound – I Have Written Songs For All Of These Reasons – But Ultimately The Love Songs Exist To Fill, With Language, The Silence Between Ourselves And God, To Decrease The Distance Between The Temporal And The Divine.

The Reason I've Gotten Into Script-writing, Which Was Accidental To Begin With, Was That I Found It Was A Far More Effective Medium For Violence. Which Is Something That I'd Always Written In Songs, But The Violence Always Sat Strangely Within A Song. And I Was Always Interested In The Way In Which You Listen To Murder Ballads And Things Like That - These Weird Lines Would Kind Of Come Out, Like, I Drug Her By The Hair Or Something - That Sat Weirdly In The Song. Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.