And I Kissed Away A Thousand Tears

It Is The Haunted Premises Of Longing That The True Love Song Inhabits. It Is A Howl In The Void, For Love And For Comfort And It Lives On The Lips Of The Child Crying For His Mother. It Is The Song Of The Lover In Need Of Her Loved One, The Raving Of The Lunatic Supplicant Petitioning His God...the Love Song Is The Sound Of Our Endeavors To Become God-like, To Rise Up And Above The Earthbound And The Mediocre.

Jesus Christ Was The Biggest Blight On The Human Race, He Was. And All Them Socialists And Communists - Second Rate Christianity.

The More Settled I've Become, The More Problematic My Characters Have Become. There Was A Period When I Wrote Sensitive And Gentle Songs And These Came At A Time When Life Was At Its Most Destructive. I Think You Write About What You Need, On Some Level.

As People Buy Less And Less Records, It's Become More And More Important For Me To Spend More And More On Them - To Lavish That Much More Attention On Them. The Bad Seeds Were Always Quite Protective And Old School, But Grinderman Has Opened Us Up To Do Anything And Be Shameless. We're Not So Precious About It.

When I’m Singing “deanna,” For Example, Which I Sing Pretty Much Every Night, It Brings Forward A Kind Of Imagined, Romanticized Lie About This Particular Person, Which I Find Really Comforting And Exciting To Sing About.