Marr said he’s often compared his artistic output to that of creators across other disciplines. In fact, he said he’s recently felt something of a creative kinship with highly-respected English actors like, say, Gary Oldman and Maxine Peake who take a similarly blue-collar approach to their respective craft. “I relate to the way they work,” Marr offered. “Just the idea of going into the studio everyday or going into rehearsals to play. And then you go into another one and another one. I don’t mean to sound pompous or anything,” he added, “but it always puzzled me why bands would take years between records. If you ask anyone who has ever been in a band with me, and there’s quite a lot of them, they’ll tell you when a record’s finished I’m usually eager to do another one.”