I Don't Usually Read Reviews. I Usually

I Figure It's Okay To Make Certain Rules, Whether Or Not People Despise You For It At The Time.

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.

The First Music I Bought When I Was Nine Or 10 Was Pop Music From The '50s And '60s, Like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, Whatever I Could Get My Hands On. And Then Some Musical Things, Like Camelot, Singing In The Rain And Hair.

I Was Really Looking Forward To Doing The Thing That I Do - I Basically Appear Just At The Beginning And At The End Of The 'the Glory Of The World' Play - But When I Got To Opening Night, I Started To Get Really Sad That That Was The Last Time I Was Going To See The Play As A Spectator Without Actually Being In It.

I Gathered All The Different Peel Sessions Recordings Together - I Did Six Or Seven Of Them Over The Years - And Listened To All Of Them. These Definitely Have At Least A Superficial Relationship To Each Other Because They're All Very Spare.