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Not My Biggest Fear, But My Biggest Problem Onstage Is Over-emphasizing What I Do. I'm Pushing Too Hard. You Need To Engage An Audience. They Need To Be Able To Involve Their Own Imaginations As Well. They Don't Need Everything Thrust Down Their Throat, And I Have A Tendency To Do That. I Always Have Had A Tendency To Do That.

To My Undying Shame, I Do Read Reviews. I Don't Read Them All, But I Like To Get Some Kind Of Idea How Things Are Going.

You Searched Through All My Poets, From Sappho Through To Auden, I Saw The Book Fall From Your Hands, As You Slowly Died Of Boredom.

Death Looms Large I Guess Because It Should. It's The One Thing That We As Human Beings From Birth Have A Right To. It's The Only Thing We've Really Got, And I Don't Mean To Sound Bleak About This, But It's A Unifying Factor Amongst Us All.

Some Are Exploring The World Through The Subconscious. I've Done That On Occasions For Various Reasons, Whether It Be Illness Or Self Abuse, Or Whatever. Once Things Start To Look Grotesque I Don't Write Them Or Sing Them. I Couldn't Write Them - Making Nightmares Into Living Daylight...the Minute It Gets Dark I Shoot Back, Retreat.