The Onion Interviews Belle & Sebastian

Or, to be more specific, they interview Stuart Murdock from the band.

O: How much of your songwriting is autobiographical?

SM: I just got this image in my mind of a cake, of writing songs being like baking a cake. The autobiographical part of things is like the flour, and the romance side of things and the fantasy part are like the sugar and eggs. By the time you’re done mixing it all together, it’s hard to tell which is which. When you write a song, it just comes out. There’ll be little strands of it, and some are of biography, and some are things that have happened or that you think about. (full interview)

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