“It was the only thing we could possibly make without having just stopped and gone our separate ways. I feel Graham had gone a long way with me. I’ve known him for so long that I couldn’t not be sensitive to his…I write good songs and I have a different kind of musical sense to him, and when the two are put together properly it’s really, really strong. But sometimes one overtakes the other. We really tried on this record to make a balance.
He’s growing up as well. We just happened to make a leap at the same time. And him giving up drinking was massively important, because it returned our relationship to what it used to be and I could communicate with him like…Well, he’s like a brother, really. Yeah, I just got very frustrated, because it was just impossible to be rational.”

(Source: sunsetcomingon, via polished-stone)