Bring Me A Wheel Of Oaken Wood

In Writing Lyrics - Well, For Me, Anyway - It's About Getting Into Character, You Know? 'who Is Writing This?' In The Case Of The Original 'thick As A Brick,' Supposedly A Precocious, Very Young Child Who's Fantasizing About His Future And The Context Of All The Confusing Elements To Which School Boys Are Subjected At That Time.

I Don't Think People Really Do Listen. We Plug Into Music, And We Have Short Attention Spans. We Tend To Download Individual Tracks From Itunes Rather Than A Whole Album. We Buy Music Dvds And Watch Them Once, And Then They Disappear Into A Drawer, Or We Loan Them To A Friend, And We Never Watch It Again.

There Seems To Be An Inclination Among Rock Musicians To Be Very Carefree With Money, But I Negotiate The Best Flight And Hotel Deals On Our Tours To Maximise The Band's Income - I Don't Want Too See Too Much Taken Off The Top Line.

Martin, Dave, And I Get Together And Rough Out A Few Songs And Put Them On Cassettes For Some Reference...with The Actual Music, I'm Not Interested In Objectivity, Quite The Opposite. I Want A Solely And Totally Subjective Experience...a Lot Of Pop Music Is About Stealing Pocket Money From Children.

Not To Be Mean About It, But Some Great Rock And Rollers, Like Bo Diddley And Chuck Berry, Are Pretty One-dimensional.