I Always Thought My Records Were Number

I Don't Like Those Songs Where You Have To Listen To A Story To Get Into Them. I Don't Want To Have To Pay Attention To Music In That Way, I Just Want It To Hit Me In The Heart And Do What Music's Supposed To Do.

I Was About 12 Years Old And I Was Sitting Watching The Television And It Was Some Kind Of Talent Show, You Know, And On Marches This Monkey, This Ape, In A Pair Of Red-checked Trousers With A Little Matching Jacket Holding A Ukelele And It Started Jigging Around Playing It, And It Was Looking Straight Into The Camera, Straight At Me, And I Remember Thinking, That's It, That'll Be Me, You Know, That'll Be Me.

I'm A Kind Of Hard-wired Pessimist. I Can't Help But See The World In A Certain Kind Of Way.

To Sustain Hatred Is A Very Difficult Thing To Do, Year After Year. It's Exhausting.

There Are Methods To Creating A Mayhem That Sounds Different From Your Usual Mayhem. Because Mayhem And A Heavy Drum Backbeat End Up Sounding Like Green Day Or Something. But If You Put A Different Beat Within It To Create Some Air And Lightness, The Chaos Comes Through Better.