Obviously we're English middle-class chaps - there's not much voodoo chile about us. - Peter Hammill

It is actually, in a way, an incredibly mundane experience. Not everyone has a heart attack but everyone has something or other, so I'm not remotely special. Just because I write songs doesn't make it a better or worse near-death experience.

If we were always here and now,
electric shiver in the spine,
how could we turn away, see life as grey and drab?
How come we don't see what we have?

These words are not enough to save my soul,
they just mock me from the mirror.