felt like a full stop for the band. At the time, was that ever a possibility, or did you think there was a future?I didn’t think there wasn’t. There was no particular reason why we should have stopped at that point, but things slowed down for a while. Other things got in the way, as they do in life, and we didn’t get round to doing another album or tour. High Hopes is a lovely end to an album but not the end of a career necessarily.I’ve always loved carpentry.
Polly has said that mortality is one of the recurring themes on Luck and Strange.It’s sad that I don’t believe in a higher power. There’s a song on the album called A Single Spark – Polly’s words, my feelings – that comes from a line on the first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s book Speak, Memory, and that says it all. I can’t remember quite how he put it, but he said that life is a single spark between two eternities.