Paul McCartney has been talking about the third instalment of his collaboration with producer Youth, under The Fireman moniker, which is released next week.
He previously said of new longplayer 'Of Electric Arguments': "The Fireman takes your hand and takes you through the blaze to places you didn't know you wanted to go".
Asked what the hell that meant by 6music's Sean Keaveny, Macca admitted: "When I get asked, I tend to say stupid stuff like that. You know, in some ways it is true - because if you haven't heard The Fireman, you won't know, then you might like it, and I think it sort of grows on you. In some ways it's true but I was just asked to make something up. It was ever so quick".
On his collaborations with Youth, he added: "I first met him because he was doing a mix of a track of mine and we just got to like each other. He's an unusual kind of guy, only in as much as he's very artistic. He likes painting, drawing, poetry, we like a lot of the same things, music obviously".
On the Macca/Youth creative process he continued: "I say, 'I dunno, let me just do a bit of electric guitar or something,' so we'll put down a little of that. Then I'll play some stuff and he starts to piece it together. On this album it was different, he started to say, 'well, what about a bit of vocals?' So I said, 'well I haven't got any words or melody or anything.' He keeps quiet and he knows I'll go, 'But I'll give it a try'".