Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

Whether you're in the water staring up at a looming set or standing in front of 15000 people at a demo, you have to manufacture some courage and a sense of optimism in order to get through the moment, the day, the rest of your life.

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

People are fools, not monsters

Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.

We live in specific places. We are marked by a place.