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Being Chronically Shy I Needed To Create A Persona For Myself And Be Involved With A Band Where I Could Be Ruler Of My Own Kingdom. Then Pulp Became Hugely Popular And I Lost Control Of It, Which Is When It All Went Wrong.

You Have To Create A Bespoke Cultural Environment. I Know This May Be A Kind Of Thing That An Old Person Says, But I Feel To Quite A Large Extent I Was Reared By The Tv I Watched.

I Do Want To Have That Feeling That People Are Actively Involved In Something, Rather Than Just Consuming Something. I Suppose That's What It Comes Down To, Because It's Such A Dominant Capitalist Society, Everything Becomes A Consumer Product. And I Don't Think That's Really Appropriate To The Creative Arts, Really.

I Don't Think People Should Abuse The Fact That They Are In Showbiz. You Still Have To Be Human. I Think That's The Point. Showbiz Is About Showing Human Things - Just Amplified, That's All. And When It Gets Too Much Into, "hey, We're Part Of The Showbiz Club And We Can Do What We Want," It Turns Me Off And I Hate It.

I Was Kind Of Reared By Television, But The Bbc, It Still Had That Thing - And People Are Always Invoking That Kind Of Reithian Idea - Where You Could Learn Stuff From It. If You Put A Kid In Front Of A Telly Now To Be Reared By That You'd Just Have A Jibbering Idiot, You Know What I Mean? Just Adverts For A Start. It's Almost Like The Programmes Are An Afterthought, The Real Business Of This Channel Is To Sell You Things And We're Just Going To Space Out Those Announcements With Some Crap To Watch.