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I Always Like To Have An Atlas Just So That I Can Find Things Out. It's Always Good To Have An Almanac; Those Sort Of Things.

I Think Making Things That Aren't Necessarily Shiny, Happy Feelings, Putting Them In That Environment Is Sometimes An Easy Way To Deal With The Ugliness. Like, I Know That As A Kid, That I Found - I Think I Learned This A Bit From My Mother - That If I Could Be As Warm Around Strangers, No Matter How Strange Or What Different Environment I Was In, That People Tended To Be Warm Back.

We Give The Podium To A Lot Of People Who Shouldn't Have The Podium. The Message That's Delivered The Loudest And In The Most Entertaining Way Is The One That We're Going To Put On Because That's What We Want. We Want Ratings More Than We Want To Deliver Information. That's Just Where The Culture's Gotten.

We Spend A Lot Of Time Bickering At Great Cost, And Very Little Time Actually Coming Up With Solutions. And I Think We Misuse Our Ambition For Our Own Gains And Rarely For The Betterment Of Ourselves, And People Around Us And Our Environment. And I Think That's Sort Of Pathetic And Desperate.

Sometimes It's Nice To Be Able To Reflect On The Music Itself And Then Write Lyrics That I Feel Anyone Can Relate To. It's Not My Dreaming Tree That Is Dead. The Feeling Of A Loss Of Hope Is Universal. There Are Moments That We've All Felt A Little Bit Of It, So I Don't Think It Is Something That Is Too Hard To Identify With.