I Think There Is A Certain Perversity

To Sustain Hatred Is A Very Difficult Thing To Do, Year After Year. It's Exhausting.

I Was About 12 Years Old And I Was Sitting Watching The Television And It Was Some Kind Of Talent Show, You Know, And On Marches This Monkey, This Ape, In A Pair Of Red-checked Trousers With A Little Matching Jacket Holding A Ukelele And It Started Jigging Around Playing It, And It Was Looking Straight Into The Camera, Straight At Me, And I Remember Thinking, That's It, That'll Be Me, You Know, That'll Be Me.

There Are Methods To Creating A Mayhem That Sounds Different From Your Usual Mayhem. Because Mayhem And A Heavy Drum Backbeat End Up Sounding Like Green Day Or Something. But If You Put A Different Beat Within It To Create Some Air And Lightness, The Chaos Comes Through Better.

My Biggest Fear Is Losing Memory Because Memory Is What We Are. Your Very Soul And Your Very Reason To Be Alive Is Tied Up In Memory.

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.