In A Song You Can Kind Of

I Would Like To Believe In An Afterlife; It Makes Things More Palatable. But I'm Not Banking On It.

Unless You're Living On The Street And Surviving On A Diet Of Discarded Turkey Drumsticks, There's No Point In Being Gloomy. We've Spent Too Long Trying To Cheer Ourselves Up By Spending Money On Brightly Coloured Things We Don't Really Need. We've Stopped Using Our Imaginations.

Well, Once You've Resigned Yourself To The Fact That You Are The More Mature Pop Performer And You're Past The Age You Ever Thought You Would Do It, You Might As Well Do It As Long As You Can. As Long As I Can Still Lift A Microphone, Then I'll Do It, You Know.

But I've Got Ideas. I Keep My Little Notebook, I've Always Got That With Me. Hopefully There's More Stuff Than Nonsense In There.

Hawkwind Are One Of Those Bands That People Introduce You To Because You Don't See Them On The Covers Of Magazines. I'd Heard 'silver Machine' But Russell Senior, Who Was In Pulp, Got Me Into Them. They Had A Song Called 'master Of The Universe' And We Nicked The Title In 1985 For One Of Our Songs.