You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie To You.

I Don't Like Records That Are The Same From Beginning To End, That Are Too Styled And Slick. Everything Is So Designed And Airbrushed And Botoxed, It Makes Us Think, 'oh, Everybody's Perfect Except Me. Everything's Smooth Except Me.' But Nothing Is Smooth.

What Comes First? The Melody, Always. It's All About Singing The Melodies Live In My Head. They Go In Circles. I Guess I'm Quite Conservative And Romantic About The Power Of Melodies. I Try Not To Record Them On My Dictaphone When I First Hear Them. If I Forget All About It And It Pops Up Later On, Then I Know It's Good Enough. I Let My Subconscious Do The Editing For Me.

I'm No Buddhist, But This Is Fu**ing Enlightmentment

It Seems That Most The World Is Driven By The Eye, Right? They Design Cities To Look Great But They Always Sound Horrible ... They Design Telephones To Look Great, But They Sound Horrible. I Think It Was About Time That The Other Senses Were Celebrated.

I Get Embarrassed Listening To My Last Cds. I've Got A Lot Of Work To Do, Let's Put It That Way.