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This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

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We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

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People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

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I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

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Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

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And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

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Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

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Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: October 7th, 1968

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