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I Don't Have Any Authority To Talk About The Domestic Policies Of America. But As An Outsider, I Am Mystified By The Fact That You Are Encouraged To Buy A Gun, But If You Use It For The Purpose That It Is Expressly Designed For, You Get The Death Penalty. That Aspect Of America Is Kind Of Mystifying.

Everybody Tends To Overplay Live. That's Just The Nature Of Playing Live. And That Can Be Great, But It Can Also Kill Something That's Special, And Intimate, About A Recorded Version Of A Song. You Find Out Very Quickly Which Songs You Can Play, And Which Songs You Do Damage To By Playing Them Live.

I Look At You And You Look At Me And Deep In Our Hearts Know It That You Weren't Much Of A Muse, But Then I Weren't Much Of A Poet

Sometimes The Song Isn't Strong Enough To Contain The Fiction, Because Memories Are Fictions.

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.