I think you have to have been broken-hearted properly to actually really start to get to grips with…

I feel you must have been broken-hearted correctly to truly really begin to familiarize yourself with it. I really feel music so much extra now. It’s a hard thing to elucidate. I’ve completed every thing in reverse, y’know? I’ve turn into all the things that I must be as a musician the older I’ve obtained. I dunno, perhaps that’s the best way it must be however there’s this bizarre cult that pop music has instilled within the culture the place every little thing is best early on. – Damon

NME, 27 February 1999 [X]