"The chorus says, ‘I met my maker and I made him cry’. That’s slagging off religion in a way. ‘He asked my why his people wouldn’t fly to him through a storm/ And I said, listen up man, you don’t even know you’re born.’ That’s an Irish Catholic thing. But it’s about preachers too. People who get on their high horse. Someone said about me...I think it was that guy our of Placebo said I wrote kindergarten lyrics, and I must have learned to play guitar out of a Play In A Day book. Which is fair enough - but again, he better be prepared to say it to my face next time he sees me.
[Going off on a tangent] "I always fall for this thing - I pick up the press and there’s this band everyone’s raving on about. So you go and buy the record and it’s shit. It’s like Symposium - what do people see in them? I know they’re young kids and all that, but if you’re on a stage it doesn’t matter how old you are, if you’re shit, you’re shit."