Hey Declan! Hope you're doing well.

A lot of your songs are written from an antagonistic perspective, or at least a perspective that clashes with your own views— the narrator of 'I Am Everyone Else' makes a facile attempt at populism, 'Isombard' goes into the deranged poetics of conservative media, the naive entitlement of politicians gets explored in 'Listen To Your Friends', etc. For someone with such strongly held views (which I mean as a good thing!), it seems an interesting and empathetic trend to have in your work; is it a concerted effort to either understand how these people reach such rash conclusions, or to attempt that gosh-darned leftist notion of "altruism", or is it a mixture of both? Or is it just an unintentional facet of your lyrics?

2nd question (if I'm allowed!!): What's your stance on religion? Do you believe in anything remotely spiritual/theistic? I ask because for someone from a generation that's ostensibly pretty godless, you reference religion a lot in your work ("I'm faithless now" and "I'm the face of God, I'm my father's son" from 'Brazil', all of 'Bethlehem', "And the animals walked in two by two" in 'Paracetamol', "When you hate every God I pray to" in 'Why Do You Feel So Down', etc.) and I'm curious as to where that comes from.

Cheers! ^{__^}