I Always Thought My Records

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.

I Always Thought My Records Were Number One; It's Just The Charts Didn't Think So.

The More Information You Have, The More Human Our Heroes Become And Consequently The Less Mysterious And Godlike. They Need To Be Godlike.

I Think I Have Always Had A Pretty Strong Creative Impulse. And That Has Probably Saved Me From Abandoning Myself Completely.

I’ve Never Intended To Make Religious Records Or Records That Preach Some Kind Of Point Of View... If You’re Involved With Imagination And The Creative Process, It’s Not Such A Difficult Thing To Believe In A God. But I’m Not Involved In Any Religions.