Whenever Somebody Says They Need An Angle

I Had A Fear That I'd Be Typecast, But I Don't Really Have That Fear Anymore.

I Think It Was W.h. Auden Who Said He Was Lucky That His First Favorite Poet Was Thomas Hardy, Who Was A Good But Not A Great Poet, Because If You Are Exposed To The Greats Too Soon It Can Just Squash You As A Writer.

Privacy Is Something I Have Come To Respect. I Think When I Was Younger I Wanted To Tell Everybody Everything, Because I Thought I Was So Damn Interesting. Then I Heard The Snoring.

There Are People Who Are Really Great Musicians. I've Met A Lot Of Them. And I'm Not A Great Musician. I'm Adequate Enough To Be Able To Throw Some Chords Together And Write Songs, But I Can Only Feel That Because I'm Expressing Something Honestly, Or In A Heartfelt Way, Or In Some Way That's Not Bullshit, That In Some Way The Songs Have Merit.

I Got Married A Bit Late, I Agree. In Any Other Period Of History I'd Have Been Dead At That Age And They'd Have Assumed I Was Gay. Like Michelangelo, Or Leonardo Da Vinci. But I Was A Late Developer. I Didn't Go Through Puberty Until I Was 35.