A Is For Answering All Your Prayers,

I've Watched 'oprah Winfrey.' And I'm Proud. I Don't Care What Anybody Says! I Don't Know Whether I've Watched It. I've Been In The Room While It's Been On.

As People Buy Less And Less Records, It's Become More And More Important For Me To Spend More And More On Them - To Lavish That Much More Attention On Them. The Bad Seeds Were Always Quite Protective And Old School, But Grinderman Has Opened Us Up To Do Anything And Be Shameless. We're Not So Precious About It.

The Blues Is Instilled In Every Musical Cell That Floats Around Your Body.

When I Start To Write A Song, I Initially Fall Into Patterns And Creative Habits That Are Familiar, And Because They're Familiar, They Sound Convincing. It's Important For Me To Not Pursue Those Ideas, Because I've Already Done Them, But To Find Ideas That Are Different And Feel Strange To Write And Disconcerting To Write.

I'm Not Saying This In A Condescending Kind Of Way, But It's Quite Simple: The Making Of America Was A Heroic Thing. Australia Has A Much Murkier, Much More Complex View Of Its History. It's Just Full Of All These Open Wounds We Don't Really Know What To Do With.