I've Always Been At War With The

Sorrow's Child Grieves Not What Has Passed, But All The Past Still Yet To Come.

I Love America. I Really Do. It's By Far The Place I Like Visiting Out Of Anywhere In The World. I Get A Palpable Sense Of Excitement When The Plane's Landing. It's A Cliché, But There's Still An Incredible Energy About New York In Particular.

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.

The Reason I've Gotten Into Script-writing, Which Was Accidental To Begin With, Was That I Found It Was A Far More Effective Medium For Violence. Which Is Something That I'd Always Written In Songs, But The Violence Always Sat Strangely Within A Song. And I Was Always Interested In The Way In Which You Listen To Murder Ballads And Things Like That - These Weird Lines Would Kind Of Come Out, Like, I Drug Her By The Hair Or Something - That Sat Weirdly In The Song. Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.

I Don't Have Any Authority To Talk About The Domestic Policies Of America. But As An Outsider, I Am Mystified By The Fact That You Are Encouraged To Buy A Gun, But If You Use It For The Purpose That It Is Expressly Designed For, You Get The Death Penalty. That Aspect Of America Is Kind Of Mystifying.