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That's What We [outsiders] Feel America Is Really About - The Kind Of Crazed Ravings Of The Christian Right - When It's Probably Something Quite Different.

The Concept Of God In America Is Very Different Than It Is In England. Because We See The Horrendous Outcome Of Religion As Being An American Thing, In Which The Name Of God Has Been Hijacked By A Gang Of Psychopaths And Bullies And Homophobes, And The Name Of God Has Been Used For Their Own Twisted Agendas.

I Lost My Innocence With Johnny Cash. I Used To Watch The Johnny Cash Show On Television In Wangaratta When I Was About 9 Or 10 Years Old. At That Stage I Had Really No Idea About Rock'n'roll. I Watched Him And From That Point I Saw That Music Could Be An Evil Thing, A Beautiful, Evil Thing.

The Band Is A Living, Breathing Thing. It Grows In The Same Way We Do As Human Beings And If It Doesn't, It Dies. It's Important To Feed The Organism, And One Way Of Doing That Is To Set Musical Challenges That Keep It Alive.

The Problem With Books, Now That I've Written One, Is That The Idea Of Adaptation Is So Much Easier Than Sitting Down To Write Something New.