“That’s the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you’re alive – the backward ache. That’s what music is. The trouble – for me – is that at some stage I realized those miracles, those aches, they have a history. They’re not private. The music’s always about what someone’s lost. That’s what you hear, when it’s good: the worlds people lost, the ones they want back. And once you hear it that way, you can’t avoid it – that it’s somehow about justice.”
