I'm A Kind Of Hard-wired

There Are Methods To Creating A Mayhem That Sounds Different From Your Usual Mayhem. Because Mayhem And A Heavy Drum Backbeat End Up Sounding Like Green Day Or Something. But If You Put A Different Beat Within It To Create Some Air And Lightness, The Chaos Comes Through Better.

Who Knows Their Own Story? It Certainly Makes No Sense When You’re In The Middle Of It

The Problem With Books, Now That I've Written One, Is That The Idea Of Adaptation Is So Much Easier Than Sitting Down To Write Something New.

Songs Need To Have The Ability To Change And To Grow For Sure. They Take On Lives Of Their Own. Some Songs Just Don't Have That Capacity. They're Locked Within A Period Of Time. And As Soon As You Take Them Out Of That Period Of Time, They Die Very Quickly.

The Idea Of Songwriting Is A Transformative Thing, And What I Do With Songwriting Is Take Situations That Are Quite Ordinary And Transform Them In Some Way. Apart From Things Like The Murder Ballads, The Songs I Write, At Their Core, Are Quite Ordinary Human Concerns, But The Process Of Writing About Them Transforms Them Into Something Else.