A Record Is Something That Isn't Real

A Record Is Something That Isn't Real Or True. It's Like Cinema. It's A Construction Of Something Hyper-real And Surreal And Unreal All At The Same Time. You Make A Space That Doesn't Really Exist. One Of The Big Joys Of Being In This Line Of Work Is Building The Recorded Versions Of The Songs.

What Is Normally Called Religion Is What I Would Tend To Call Music - Participating In Music, Listening To Music, Making Records And Singing.

All You Do Is You Go Back To The Maida Vale Studios At Bbc In London, And It Feels Like You're In A Spaceship. It Feels Like You're In 2001 Or Something Like That. It's Massive And Well Constructed And Highly Technologically Advanced And Occupied By These Wise Scientists, Engineers, And Producers. Listening To It, It Just Doesn't Sound Like Me - That's A Younger Self That Didn't Know Who He Was Or What He Was Doing. I Can't Identify With A Nebulous Cloud.

If We Were Making A Record In Kentucky, There Might Be Some More Elements That Recall A Time, A Place, Or A Relationship. Recording For The Bbc You Enter Into This Strange And Wonderful, But Kind Of Sterile, Place With Which You Have No Personal History, And That's The Maida Vale Studios At Bbc In London.

I Want To Be Successful And I Want People To Hear The Music And I Want To Make Money At It, But If It Isn't What You Do, Eventually It Seems Like That Will Cause You To Not Be Able To Do What You Do. If You Did That For A Couple Years, You Would Just Become Someone Else, Which Is Fine, I Guess...but I Don't Want To Become Someone Else. I Want To Do What I Enjoy And What Feels Right.