You Get To A Certain Age And

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.

Part Of Why I Started A Band Was Due To Feelings Of Shyness And Social Ineptitude. I Saw It As Some Way Of Being Able To Interact With People From A Safe Distance. It's Always Been About Trying To Get To Know People. Albeit, It's A Bit Of A Contradiction Because You Can't Really Get To Know People When They're 10 Feet Away And There's A Big Mass Of Them.

I'm Sure Sting's A Lovely Guy. It's Just That Nobody Wants To Be Seen As That Holier-than-thou Thing. That Over-earnestness Is A Bit Of A Problem With People In Bands And Celebrities Or Whatever.

Everybody's A Bit Screwed Up, You Know. You Can Take It As Symptoms Of A Disorder, Or You Can Take It As Personality. Me, I'd Rather Think It As Parts Of Personality.

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.