You're One Microscopic Cog In His Catastrophic

Well, As Anyone Who Actually Writes Knows, If You Sit Down And Are Prepared, Then The Ideas Come. There's A Lot Of Different Ways People Explain That, But, You Know, I Find That If I Sit Down And I Prepare Myself, Generally Things Get Done.

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

When You've Been Initiated, You Can Stand In The World Differently. And I Think It Is Up To All Of Us, We Can Have Cheerleaders, We Can Have Supporters, But It Comes Down To Us As Individuals, How Do We Now Proceed? Do We Have The Tools To Proceed?

The Idea Of Songwriting Is A Transformative Thing, And What I Do With Songwriting Is Take Situations That Are Quite Ordinary And Transform Them In Some Way. Apart From Things Like The Murder Ballads, The Songs I Write, At Their Core, Are Quite Ordinary Human Concerns, But The Process Of Writing About Them Transforms Them Into Something Else.

We Are Still Struggling With People Who Don't Feel Comfortable Going Into Museums. As A Visual Artist I Ask How Artists Can Be Part Of Enacting A Change.