No Wonder Sorrow Doesn’t Smile

That's What We [outsiders] Feel America Is Really About - The Kind Of Crazed Ravings Of The Christian Right - When It's Probably Something Quite Different.

The Way People Reacted To Me In Dressing Rooms And So On Was Incredibly Aggressive. They Know Every Record And They Seem To Think They Should Nudge Me Or Bump Into Me As They Go Past. It Was This Incredible Performance That Used To Amuse Me. In The Early Days, People Were Drawn Towards Us Like They'd Be Drawn Towards A Car Smash...there Is A Definite Relationship Between That Fanaticism And The Fan That, As A Performer, You Expose More Of Yourself, Of The Undercurrents Of Your Personality. Most Rock Personalities Subdue That Or Choose Not To Explore It.

As People Buy Less And Less Records, It's Become More And More Important For Me To Spend More And More On Them - To Lavish That Much More Attention On Them. The Bad Seeds Were Always Quite Protective And Old School, But Grinderman Has Opened Us Up To Do Anything And Be Shameless. We're Not So Precious About It.

Getting Married, For Me, Was The Best Thing I Ever Did. I Was Suddenly Beset With An Immense Sense Of Release, That We Have Something More Important Than Our Separate Selves, And That Is The Marriage. There's Immense Happiness That Can Come From Working Towards That.

God Is In Everything Whether I'm Mentioning Him Or Not.