Sathnam Sanghera

He could play the bass.

But he told everyone he couldn't play anything.

And sometimes he made out he was more talented than he was, and often he undermined his own talent.

And I think this is all about the fact that he wanted to protect the magic of how he wrote songs.

It couldn't make sense of how these songs came to him.

And he worried that if he analyzed it,

the magic would go.

And it's been a studied thing in that the more people know about things, often it doesn't translate to success.

And I know that as a writer, in that I cannot tell you the first thing about grammar.

But I write through sound.

And I know friends of mine who know lots about grammar, and they can't write for shit.

And I think that is what he was trying to protect.

it literally bit by bit sometimes note by note and then stitch it all together is that right yeah and you talk to the producer i talked to chris chris porter he's probably his main producer yeah and he said he would talk about it like

he was watching a man having a breakdown.

Because people go on about how incredible the lyrics and the vocals on Faith are, but you cannot sing that.

Even he could not sing that live because it was bar by bar.

He would sing one syllable, stop the recording, then sing another syllable.

And it could take days.

He did the vocals for Kissing a Fool.

He spent 12 hours doing the vocals on one song.