If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.