Martin Carr said: "We moved into a flat in Muswell Hill with Tim and his girlfriend and spent nights smoking Nepalese Temple Balls and playing ‘Road Rash’. I wrote the lyrics there; I was trying to make sense of my life, I had decided that I was not going to shroud the lyrics in metaphors that only I understood anymore. I think Charles Bukowski may have been a big influence here."
Martin Carr said: "We moved into a flat in Muswell Hill with Tim and his girlfriend and spent nights smoking Nepalese Temple Balls and playing ‘Road Rash’. I wrote the lyrics there; I was trying to make sense of my life, I had decided that I was not going to shroud the lyrics in metaphors that only I understood anymore. I think Charles Bukowski may have been a big influence here."