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We Always Keep Things Very, Very Simple. We Can Make A Respectable Living Playing A Smaller Room That Somebody Else Couldn't, Because They're Spending A Lot Of Money. If We Can't Get A Show Up And Deliver With What We Almost Intrinsically Have In Our Brains And Our Pockets, Then I Don't Really Want To Do It.

I Feel Like, For Me, Reading Thomas Merton Is Like “wait A Minute, This Is A Rabbit Hole. This Isn’t A Gateway Or A Ticket To Anything Except Itself”. When You're A Ways Into It, You're Five Pages In, 20 Pages In, 30 Pages In, It Seems Like One Of The More Oxymoronic Undertakings You Could Attempt.

The Songs Are Not Meant To Be Real Life. They're Meant To Have A Psychic - Rather Than A Factual - Bearing On The Listener. It's Rare That A Song Grounded In Reality Moves Me Because I Don't Feel Like I'm Getting The Whole Story. Songs Are Made To Exist In And Of Themselves, Like A Great James Jones Or Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.

All You Do Is You Go Back To The Maida Vale Studios At Bbc In London, And It Feels Like You're In A Spaceship. It Feels Like You're In 2001 Or Something Like That. It's Massive And Well Constructed And Highly Technologically Advanced And Occupied By These Wise Scientists, Engineers, And Producers. Listening To It, It Just Doesn't Sound Like Me - That's A Younger Self That Didn't Know Who He Was Or What He Was Doing. I Can't Identify With A Nebulous Cloud.

My Hope Has Always Been That Each Record Could Have Its Own Audience. Of Course, It's Awesome To Have A Cumulative Audience For More Than One Record, But I Like The Idea That There Could Be A Record That An Individual Might Like.