Tim Booth: “For me, I write a lot of my best lyrics at like 4 am. I wake up and I can’t sleep because I have a song lyric going in my head and I get up and write it down, which leads me to another and another. It’s all done fairly without thinking. The thinking, conscious, analytical brain is less than five percent of the brain. Ninety-five percent is unconscious to us. So it figures that the rich stuff is in the unconscious. The creative and dream aspects are in the unconscious part of us. I really spend a lot of my life trying to get to those parts of myself because I think that’s the role of the artist.”
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