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I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.
I did this movie called 'Lymelife' when I was 18, and you know, it was the first time I was working as an adult, a legal adult, and that was a huge growing experience for me.
When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.
My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.