I think you have to have been broken-hearted properly to actually really start to get to grips with…

I feel it's a must to have been broken-hearted properly to truly actually begin to familiarize yourself with it. I really feel music a lot more now. It’s a tough factor to elucidate. I’ve finished the whole lot in reverse, y’know? I’ve turn out to be all the things 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 within the culture the place every part is best early on. – Damon

NME, 27 February 1999 [X]