The Good Thing About People Really Is

Being Chronically Shy I Needed To Create A Persona For Myself And Be Involved With A Band Where I Could Be Ruler Of My Own Kingdom. Then Pulp Became Hugely Popular And I Lost Control Of It, Which Is When It All Went Wrong.

As A Shy Kid Growing Up In Sheffield, I Fantasized About How It Would Be Great To Be Famous So I Wouldn't Actually Have To Talk To People And Feel Awkward. And Of Course, As We All Know From Fairy Stories, When You Achieve That Ambition, You Find Out You Don't Want It.

You Try And Imagine What It Must Have Been Like To First See Something Moving On A Screen. It Must Have Blown Your Mind, Because Up To Then Life Went By And There Was No Way To Capture It. You Could Only Get One Instant And You Didn't Get The Movement. So It's Like Having A Bit Of Control Over Time Really, Because It's Happening In Real Time Or What Seems To Be Real Time, And Then You Can Play It Backwards And You Can Watch Things Again And Again.

Everybody's A Bit Screwed Up, You Know. You Can Take It As Symptoms Of A Disorder, Or You Can Take It As Personality. Me, I'd Rather Think It As Parts Of Personality.

I Think Life Is More Interesting When Everybody's Jumbled Up Together. When People Separate Out Into Cliques And Things, It's Okay, But It's A Bit Limiting. You Can Always Learn Things From Other People. This Is My Theory.