I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape and a better feeling. You evolve into and out of things, and go through stages, but, ultimately, you do improve.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm