You're Making Something That Won't Be What

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.

I've Never Done A Video Where I Feel Like The Images Have Anything To Do With My Song, Except In The Most Vague Way Possible, Because I Feel Like The Song Is Its Own Complete Thing. But Ideally, A Song Is A Complete Sphere Like The Earth, Where If You Were An Alien With A Huge, Huge Finger, You Could Stick Your Finger Into The Middle Of The Ocean And Make An Impression On It. It’s Not An Impregnable Sphere, But It Is A Sphere.

When You're Listening To A Recording, You're Supposedly Listening To Some Aspect Of The Past In The Present As You Travel Slowly Into The Future, But You Also Know There's A Very Strong Likelihood That The Future Of That Recording, Whether You Made It Or Whether You're Listening To A Led Zeppelin Record, Is Going To Continue Probably Far Beyond Where You Are.

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.

What Is Normally Called Religion Is What I Would Tend To Call Music - Participating In Music, Listening To Music, Making Records And Singing.