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choose? BV: What scares you the most and have you whole way.’ What do you think of that quote?
BW: I think it would be cool if I could live ever died of fright? BW: I don’t think I agree with the quote at all.
through, not necessarily be born there, but I BW: There’s been lots of different things, ob- If I looked at it in my perspective, I have some
like the 1940’s/1950’s. I love everything about viously being on tour when family is sick or really good people in my life, I would hate to
it, I think that was a great time for music. I hurt, really serious things. It puts your mini- think I had a lonely life if I looked at it that
also love the cars, the fashion, the simplicity mal thoughts and priorities in perspective, way. I’ve got great parents, family, friends,
of it. I mean, I’m happy with the era I grew up like you might think ‘Oh, I’ve had a bad day’ had a great life so far so who am I to say that
in too y’know, there’s some cool stuff about, and you get told somebody’s in hospital or I’m lonely?
but I think the world is continuously chang- there’s been a car crash and you’re hundreds
ing and now I can go ‘this world is a crazy of miles from home. All of a sudden, those lit- BV: Do you think any of your songs can help
place’. I’m sure people were saying that 40- tle problems you had before get put into per- fans who feel alone in life?
50 years ago too! It’s all relative, I would love spective, all your small things you worry BW: I hope so. I think that’s the ultimate pay-
to visit different decades but I’m content about get put out the window, you put your- off, when people say ‘Hey, your music helped
where I am too. self in a different mindset. I would normally me through this,’ or ‘It literally saved my life.’
tell myself I need to reconnect with that per- That’s why we do it, if we can help somebody
BV: Do you believe in karma / consequences son or get in touch, visit, whatever, because in some way, then we’ve done our job. It feels
/ life coming back to bite you if you do some- it scares you. really good to do that too, that we can be a
thing that affects others? part of that and you become a part of that
BW: Yeah I do, I think about it all the time BV: Is there anything you’d like to do before person’s life forever now. It’s like the ultimate
when I make decisions and I think everybody you die? reward for playing music.
should. It’s a little bit selfish if you make de- BW: I’d love to have a child. My wife and I are
cisions just based on yourself, if it benefits happy but we want kids. I’ve got to do some BV: ‘A person's last moments are an impor-
you and how you feel about it. It’s about look- pretty amazing things already with the band; tant thing. You can't choose how you're born,
ing out for other’s well-being and how it’s travel, see different countries and cultures, but you can choose how to die,’ by Haruki
going to affect them. there’s plenty more out there. I don’t know, Murakami. If you had the choice, would you
people could say I could die a happy man, choose how you die, or would you leave it to
BV: Have you ever nearly died of laughter? but there’s always more out there! At the end just happen?
BW: Oh sure. I do it all the time! Usually the of the day, I just want to leave on a good note, BW: How I would die? I think that’s a bit like
band picks on each other pretty hard, so I don’t want to leave with any bridges burned! the question ‘Do you want to know when
when everybody gets rolling together, when you’re going to die?’ and my answer is defi-
everybody is calling each other out, that’s nitely, no I don’t! On one hand you go ‘well
when it gets really funny. We tend to get BV: What about after death? Do you think yeah, I do’ but then you go ‘I want to get all
pretty personal, but not too personal, to- there is something afterwards? this done!’ I want to let it happen when it’s
wards where it’s just hysterical laughter but BW: Obviously believing in somebody up- supposed to happen, when it calls, hopefully
we all know each other’s limits, so it’s good stairs means I believe in heaven. It’s a good it’s nothing bad. But it will be what it is and
fun. I mean laughter is infectious, I can watch hope to hold on to for sure. that’s fine by me. I try not to think too much
a movie on my own, laugh at it and then into it, I just try to live the best I can knowing
laugh at myself for laughing afterwards, but BV: Hunter S. Thompson once said ‘We are that day will come eventually.
when everybody is in a room and having a all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite
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