“If you have a thing in your life which is quite obviously the biggest thing that’s happening, you can’t stop thinking about it,” [Stuart Murdoch] tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep. “You really shouldn’t stop talking about it. I want to talk about the things that I’m feeling, and if I have a force working inside of me, and it’s something I think about on an hourly basis, then that’s what I’m going to write about.”<\/p>\n
Faith took on a different appearance in Belle and Sebastian’s earlier work. For example, in “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” from the 1996 album of the same name, Murdoch wrote from a more cynical perspective.<\/p>\n
“I was writing from the perspective of someone who was trying to work things out,” he says. “And I was kind of mopping up some of the attitudes I had encountered over the previous five or six years. I was a young and fairly hip 19- or 20-year-old punk … knocking about Glasgow, but I went to church. And this was quite an unusual thing. I didn’t see any other hipsters or punks at church.”<\/p>\n