What do you think of
artists who regard self-destruction as grounds for creativity?
"I think it's anal. I do. It's anal. Self-destruction as
in this Marilyn Manson thing?"
Well whatever your perceive as self-destruction?
"It's anal in general. Music for me is therapy. Anything
that I have done in my life previously I wouldn't want anyone
to see that, because I've changed through the music. Through
my writing I've been able to look deep into myself and find
out how I do feel, write it down and turn it into songs and
it's therapy and I don't see why it doesn't make you a hard
man. All this sort of Kurt Cobain thing. I don't know all about
that shit man. It's like get a life, you're a millionaire mother
fucker. I'm from this shit, what is wrong with the man. So I
don't get it. When the man died right, unfortunately he had
a pair of beat up old Nikes on his feet. He didn't even have
a nice pair of trainers on man. The man must have been fucking
depressed. It's terrible. If you can't make yourself happy through
being yourself then you've got a fucking problem. You can't
just go kill yourself, but that guy can't even be happy being
himself. That guy needs a chill pill, whack off or something."
Nick breaks into a laugh. "It's my word of the week. I
watched a movie called 'Bulletproof'. It was the bit where he
goes into the hotel and tells him to "whack it, no whack
it about there", fucking funny man. I started saying it
to Sam and his head went to bits."
Interview by Andrew McLean 1999
Photography © Andrew McLean & Dust Junkys 2005 |
