Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.

The moment you know you know you know.