Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
“I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.”
“I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather tha”