Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

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.