The song was my interpretation of what he told me. I met a guy in a bar in New York years ago. One in particular was “Like a Tattoo.” That song is about a man who has been in Vietnam, but it’s not really about Vietnam. Some of the songs on here are things I wanted to write about a long time ago. We were working on Love Deluxe for about four months, physically making it. How long does that formulation of ideas take? It depends on each song, really, how it comes to be. Maybe Stuart or Andrew will come from a bassline and then we build on that. Sometimes the songs don’t come from my lyrics. Some of the things I write down, they’ll never be on a record. It can be embarrassing when people go through your private thoughts. I try to write so that it is indecipherable. I travel with it and sometimes I look around and can’t find it. Something will come over me and I’ll suddenly realize I hadn’t seen it lately.Ībout six years. Yeah, I have a little notebook, but I’m always losing it as well mislaying it. The things that most depress you are often the things that you write about. But we pretty much approached the album in the way that we always do. You get some perspective on why you’re making a record. Well, first of all it’s good that we stopped and didn’t try to make another one off the back of the previous album. Can you talk a little about you and the band working on this album after not being in the studio for a few years?
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I guess we should start off talking about the new album, Love Deluxe. You’re nervous? I’ve never been so nervous in my life.