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There's The Famous Thing That The A&r Man From The Record Company Is Supposed To Do: He's Supposed To Come Into The Studio And Listen To The Songs You've Been Recording And Then Say, 'guys, I Don't Hear Any Singles.' And Then Everybody Falls Into A Terrible Depression Because You Have To Write One.

My Basic Position Is That The More Mixed The Society And The More Mobility There Is In It, The Better. That's What Makes Things Interesting. When You Get A Homogenous Society, It's Very, Very Dull, Whether That's All Working Class Or All Upper Class, Because Everybody Thinks The Same, Everybody Looks The Same.

Its Ok To Grow Up, Just As Long As You Don't Grow Old. Face It You Are Young.

Hawkwind Are One Of Those Bands That People Introduce You To Because You Don't See Them On The Covers Of Magazines. I'd Heard 'silver Machine' But Russell Senior, Who Was In Pulp, Got Me Into Them. They Had A Song Called 'master Of The Universe' And We Nicked The Title In 1985 For One Of Our Songs.

There Are Some Quite Funny Things About Getting Famous And Stuff, But I Think There Comes A Point Where You Have To Think To Yourself, "well, Am I Doing This Because I Want To Go To A Party And Meet Britney Spears? Or Am I Doing It Because I Want To Create Something That Excites Me?"