Cities Are Made For Enemies To Destroy.

I Still Make Music. I Still Write Music And I Record Music, I Just Don't Trust Music Promotion [and] Distribution Right Now Enough To Record A New Set Of Diligently Worked-upon Compositions. I Do Trust The Audience And The Audiences Very Much.

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.

It's Nice To Be Able To Backtrack And Not Be Embarrassed By The Music You Used To Listen To.

I Have More Respect For Somebody Who Points At His Ideal - In This Case, The Ideal Of The Pirate - And Then Becomes Something That's More Radical, More Exciting, More Subversive Than A Pirate Could Ever Be.

I Valued The Experience Of Making The Recordings, And I Value The Performances Contained Therein, And I Value So Much Of What They Can Represent. I Also Think They're A Terrific Listening Experience. Putting Them Out This Way Was A Way Of Trying To Maintain And Nurture The Relationship With The Audience And Also Shine A Light On The Recent Past, Because We Are So Apt To Be Forgetful As Human Beings That There Was Such A Thing As A Recent Past. These Are Some Of The Reasons For Making This Record.