I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

What the hell am I doing here?

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

I am all the days that you choose to ignore.

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.