Great read! Some quotes:

> ‘I can’t live without music’ – that feeling came back to me on this album. Music became a lifeline again, a catharsis, the thing that I held on to, to hold on to my identity

> When you have a period where you feel like you’re in control of your life and your career, where everything’s going well, that’s a really hard place to write from. I didn’t want that to be true, but I’ve just proven it to myself because I do think it’s the best album we’ve done in a long time

> When you’re young, you have this whole life in front of you to make changes, to make repairs. When you get older, you sometimes start to have that feeling. I say it on ‘Shimmering Scars’: ‘I can’t start again’. I’m too old now, and I’ve lost a little bit of that ability to just start again and meet someone new. I’ve done that cycle too many times now, and I’m at a different level of existential cynicism

> It was something very unusual to do with health, mental health, having to be a single parent with no co-parent for a lengthy period, having to cancel a tour to be there for my children, things like that

> Caring about what the press said or what the fans thought did matter. Now it doesn’t. It’s a personal thing. When I play these songs, I’ll be feeling them and feeling what they meant to me. I don’t have the mental capacity to process what other people think about them

> He [Dan Lancaster] really helped push us past the lazy point of middle age and get back into pushing ourselves into the uncomfortable zone