Ed O'Brien

This felt more real and more powerful and deeper than anything I'd ever had.

And I remember the day after he was born at home and we'd set up a birthing pool in the sitting room and the next day,

So Sal, we had an enormous bed and Sal for the first year slept in our bed between Susie and myself.

It was so beautiful.

And Susie didn't get out of bed for 14 days.

We did this whole thing very much, very much subscribed and influenced by the whole continuum concept.

And so the mother and child, Susie and Sal were asleep and I was clearing, I mean, it was just like a bomb site.

I was getting rid of this huge amounts of water that had

It had all the stuff from a birth.

And I remember I felt like I had this moment.

And I was so like, this is my job.

I found my role.

So that stopped me from...

being in kind of radio headland and I'm pretty private.

I've never liked, I've always felt deeply uncomfortable on the more public aspect of, you know, if we do an award ceremony or we go out on mass, I love the gigs.

I love, love, love, love, love those shows.

Cause there's a, but the, the more, the, the other stuff I always sort of, sort of was able to, so I did,

That question you asked me doesn't really register with me because I didn't really carry that with me.

And I kind of like that because the other thing is that, again, I realized that very early.

I remember it was around the time of OK Computer and I was a single guy and I was at a party and I was having a conversation with this girl and we were getting on really well.