I'm A Kind Of Hard-wired Pessimist. I

It's Always A Risky Business Inviting Somebody On Stage. You Never Know What They're Going To Do. I Try To Avoid Letting People Join Me Onstage Because It Can Be Very Distracting, And Overly Theatrical.

Despite What People Might Think, I'm Not Interested In Being Dark All The Time. I'm Actually Searching For Some Kind Of Light, And I'm Always Very Happy When I Can Achieve That.

The Big Problem With Songwriting For Me Is Starting A New Song. It's The Thing Where All The Anguish Exists, Not In The Writing Of The Song, But The Starting Of The New Song.

Sometimes The Song Isn't Strong Enough To Contain The Fiction, Because Memories Are Fictions.

You Searched Through All My Poets, From Sappho Through To Auden, I Saw The Book Fall From Your Hands, As You Slowly Died Of Boredom.