Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed

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.

Out Of Sorrow Entire Worlds Have Been Built Out Of Longing Great Wonders Have Been Willed They're Only Little Tears Darling Let Them Spill And Lay Your Head Upon My Shoulder.

I Think There Is A Certain Perversity In My Music In That I Continue, You Know, To Eat At The Same Ball Of Vomit Year After Year.

My Muse Is My Wife. It's Not Some Vague Thing That Flutters Around The Astrosphere Or Wherever It Is. Sometimes As A Songwriter You Need Something To Hang A Song On, To Give It Some Kind Of Presence And Form. For Me, Susie Is That.

The Reason I've Gotten Into Script-writing, Which Was Accidental To Begin With, Was That I Found It Was A Far More Effective Medium For Violence. Which Is Something That I'd Always Written In Songs, But The Violence Always Sat Strangely Within A Song. And I Was Always Interested In The Way In Which You Listen To Murder Ballads And Things Like That - These Weird Lines Would Kind Of Come Out, Like, I Drug Her By The Hair Or Something - That Sat Weirdly In The Song. Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.