pop music and performance to be about some kind of artistic projection rather than strict autobiography. Was that a problem for Richey, that it was very autobiographical, that people didn't see the warning signs? NW: "I've always felt that for all of us, there was a massive self-fulfilling prophecy, that we would implode. I always thought Richey would be the first. We did what we could, but I always felt something would happen, not to the extreme that it has. The first thing that we said in an interview was that we were going to set fire to ourselves on "Top Of The Pops". You don't say things like that for the sake of it, you do actually believe those things when you're young. If you'd gone into any of our houses, any of the four of us, you'd see all the books and all the videos, all the same, all negative. Depression, suicide, alcohol, that's what we all found interesting". "The whole thing is hard to document, sometimes you can say carving 4 REAL into your arm, that's suicidal but then for a year or two it went away, and then with "The Holy Bible" it came back. From the time we went to Thailand on, I felt something was going to give. When we released "Faster", from then on, I felt something wasn't right. Everything Caught Up with us". "It's not like the Kurt Cobain thing, because we spoke to Richey every single day for the last five