In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.