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 really begin to familiarize yourself with it. I really feel music a lot more now. It’s a hard thing to elucidate. I’ve carried out all the things in reverse, y’know? I’ve grow to be every part that I must be as a musician the older I’ve acquired. I dunno, perhaps that’s the best way it ought to be however there’s this bizarre cult that pop music has instilled within the culture the place every thing is best early on. – Damon

NME, 27 February 1999 [X]