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 properly to truly really begin to familiarize yourself with it. I feel music so much extra now. It’s a tough thing to elucidate. I’ve achieved the whole lot in reverse, y’know? I’ve turn out to be every part that I must be as a musician the older I’ve obtained. I dunno, perhaps that’s the best way it must be but there’s this bizarre cult that pop music has instilled in the tradition the place every thing is best early on. – Damon

NME, 27 February 1999 [X]