It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.