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When have you failed? Failure is regret, I think. Regretting not having done something when you had the opportunity. Or when you start measuring your achievements against other people’s, that’s when you start thinking about failure. You can trap yourself in this spiral of despair because you feel like everyone’s having a way better time and doing way better than you are. It’s fatal, because you know there’s someone looking at what you are doing and thinking ‘they’re having a way better time than me’. who say they don’t. Towards the end of Fur Patrol I was down. We’d been touring our asses off and working really hard in Australia but everything fell apart and we lost faith. We’d spent too much time listening to other people rather than following our instincts. It’s hard to stick to your guns. I had to take time out. I felt really lost with music and that was the worst part of it. After that we decided to make another album. In some respects I think it was the right thing to do, other times I think I should have walked away then. But you have to accept the decisions that you make. love living here now though. I really enjoy the lifestyle. I love having a backyard. We’ve got a lemon tree, grapefruit, two banana trees, feijoas. We brought our cat back with us and he’d never seen grass before except on the median strip. He went crazy when he got out into the garden. think, less introspective and more about what’s going on in the world around. I’m doing a psychology paper by correspondence and I really enjoy it. I’ll see how I go and maybe in 10 years’ time I might have a degree and a change of career. Ha!