It's A Wonderful Life If You Can

It Was About The Preciousness Of That, And How They Viewed Those Birds As Art, As Something Valuable. I Didn't Care One Way Or Another Back Then, But Now, Thinking About My Grandparents - Who Are Still Alive But Getting Older - I See The Birds As Sort Of Time Capsules. Now I Go Home During The Holidays And They Hold A Lot Of Weight In Terms Of Nostalgia And Memory. Now They Mean Everything.

The Way I Take In The World Is By Seeing It; That Is Very Much Evident In The Songs That I Write.

I've Always Done A Lot Of Research And Stuff Around The Songs That I Write So There Are Pages And Pages Of Writing And You Can Kind Of See These Songs Emerging.

We As Visual Artists Need To Continue To Be Renegades And Say, "yes I Am Here To Do A Project, But What Is The Social Service?"

The Reason I've Gotten Into Script-writing, Which Was Accidental To Begin With, Was That I Found It Was A Far More Effective Medium For Violence. Which Is Something That I'd Always Written In Songs, But The Violence Always Sat Strangely Within A Song. And I Was Always Interested In The Way In Which You Listen To Murder Ballads And Things Like That - These Weird Lines Would Kind Of Come Out, Like, I Drug Her By The Hair Or Something - That Sat Weirdly In The Song. Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.