INT: I awakened yesterday singing The Narcissist. Do you've got any type of formulation or tips for making one thing go down easily?
Damon: Properly how’s that track on My Truthful Woman? “a spoonful of sugar helps the drugs go down”
INT: The sugar come with the melody?
Damon: I don’t know. It’s definitely not on the lyrics, the lyrics are not often uplifting. Spike Milligan was an excellent comic writer and on his grave stone he had inscribed ‘I advised you I wasn’t feeling properly’ (laughs) It’s the enjoyment and unhappiness of life. That ultimate victory that makes individuals giggle. And that’s type of the essence of melancholy: the belief that you are dying your greatest life.
INT: What’s the importance of the title of the album?
Damon: Darren is a pal of everyone in the band. He represents all of us. Darren is everyman.
INT: Properly… did he undergo one thing considerably just lately?
Damon: Properly we all undergo vital issues. Obviously as I wrote the songs I assume I went via some vital issues as nicely. I'm a licensed sad-55-years-old. I’m not afraid of unhappiness you recognize.
INT: Is there an general emotional framework to the album?
Damon: I feel once they catch you sure songs will play together with your emotions fairly heavely. Songs like The Everglades will snap individuals on the face at one level.
INT: Do you've got any sort of trepidation about writing weak lyrics or exposing your self?
Damon: I suppose that in many ways this (report) is my weak. Vulnerability… by singing about it you’re one way or the other easing it. The vulnerability is diminished by your means to precise it.
INT: Writing songs… does it allow you to to know your feelings or speak about it?
Damon: Yes but I don’t wish to make all of it about myself. I exploit the place I am in my life and the way I really feel to talk about different issues typically.

By way of Broken Report podcast. 2023.