I think you live the life that you want to live and I think in most cases, certainly with things like fame, I think you decide what happens to you. In some you don’t get to decide but I think with a lot of celebrities, going to certain places and making sure you’re seen in certain places is a choice, so if you don’t ever want to be recognised, then disappear off the face of the earth, it’s pretty easy for that to happen.

Badlands is just a greater body of work. It’s a place; a metaphor for my mental state. The Badlands are isolated. Chaotic. Commercial. Gluttonous. And midway through the record the protagonist makes a decision to escape, though unsure of what lies beyond the only place they’ve ever known. This symbolizes my choice to leave a depressive state of mind and seek solace in a more optimistic place. Leaving behind the devastation but carrying the baggage still. It’s darker, more industrial. And we’ve attempted to create a physical space with sound. It’s an adventure; it’s a movie with no picture.

“We’re not a family. We’re a Band-Aid, and once you rip it off, all we are to each other is scars.”