Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian

Interview by Ryan Gilbey in the Guardian 27/07/2022

‘I’d rather be a tramp than reform my old bands’: Lawrence on life as British music’s greatest also-ran”

“His greatest enthusiasm is reserved for the larger-than-life-sized pink marble bust which the sculptor Corin Johnson is making of him: “He came up to me at a gig and said, ‘I’d like to do a statue of you.’” A month’s worth of sittings later – including one spent with straws in his nostrils while his head was encased in plaster of Paris – and it’s almost ready. Nick Cave, one of Lawrence’s heroes, has been working in the same yard on a ceramics project about the devil. “He keeps saying, ‘When are you going to bloody finish that?’”