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When I’m Singing “deanna,” For Example, Which I Sing Pretty Much Every Night, It Brings Forward A Kind Of Imagined, Romanticized Lie About This Particular Person, Which I Find Really Comforting And Exciting To Sing About.

I'm Not In The Business Of Telling People What To Do. I'm Much More In The Business Of Describing Things, Situations And Stuff Like That And Leaving Them Out There, And You Can Make Up Your Minds About Them.

As People Buy Less And Less Records, It's Become More And More Important For Me To Spend More And More On Them - To Lavish That Much More Attention On Them. The Bad Seeds Were Always Quite Protective And Old School, But Grinderman Has Opened Us Up To Do Anything And Be Shameless. We're Not So Precious About It.

I Think It's An Essential Fact For Any Performer Or Artist To Fail As Poignantly As They Can Succeed.

What I Think About When I Frequent The Museum Of Natural History, The Metropolitan [museum Of Art], And I Look At These Artifacts That Are Taken Out Of Context And How We're Forced To View Them As Objects, As Relics, As Sculpture- Static. But What's Interesting Is What It Allows Me To Do In My Head In Terms Of Imagining What The Possibilities Are Or Imagining The Role In Which They Played Within A Particular Culture Which I'm Fascinated By.