It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
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.
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.
No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.
Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.