I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

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 get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.