We As Visual Artists Need To Continue

The Band Is A Living, Breathing Thing. It Grows In The Same Way We Do As Human Beings And If It Doesn't, It Dies. It's Important To Feed The Organism, And One Way Of Doing That Is To Set Musical Challenges That Keep It Alive.

I've Always Hated Narrative Songs. I Hate Those Songs Where, Basically, It's An Unfolding Of A Story.

Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.

That's What We [outsiders] Feel America Is Really About - The Kind Of Crazed Ravings Of The Christian Right - When It's Probably Something Quite Different.

I've Had To Try And Find A Way Over The Years Of Writing Narratively That Doesn't Really Require You To Sit Down And Work Out What The Story's About. You're Brought Into A Sort Of Sequence Of Images That Have That Emotional Resonance, But It's Kind Of Irrelevant What The Actual Story Is. It's Taken Me Maybe 13 Albums Or Something To Work That Out.