The Way I Take In The World

One Thing That I'm Really Interested In Is The Kind Of Esoteric Detail That Surrounds These Great Figures. And Wikipedia Is Full Of That Kind Of Stuff, Whether It's True Or Untrue. It Staggers Me: Why, In The Short Space Assigned To A Person Or An Event, That Kind Of Random Information Is There. To Be Honest, That's Wonderful Fuel For Songwriting.

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

An Artist's Duty Is Rather To Stay Open-minded And In A State Where He Can Receive Information And Inspiration. You Always Have To Be Ready For That Little Artistic Epiphany.

I Know When I Sit With My Band Members And We're Playing Back A Song That We've Done, I Know That They're Experiencing It In A Completely Different Way And Hearing Stuff That They're Alerted To Because The Way The Interpret The World Is Through Their Ears. Mine Is Through My Eyes.

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.