In a broad sense it's about me, but I've kind of taken what I presumed to be great lengths to not personify or to not exhibit that spiritual behaviour in my own life. It's the only one that's really not about me, per se. That tune is sort of like the odd one out to me. You've given yourself an incredibly wide palette of musical styles and emotional ttroughs and peaks, starting with Rorschach sheets at one end and 'Bored in the USA' on the other. It's fairly – you know, we're talking about album called 'I Love You Honeybear' that deals with, like, chiefly jealousy, despair, sex, kind of the male psyche in all its disastrous glory. But I think the themes on the album are anything but. I just like how that word telegraphs against – it's such a benign phrase. It fits the persona of the album very well, though. But I've certainly never called anybody that. So I just liked the idea of throwing the most banal pet name I could think of in there.

It's kind of a love song about the end of the world. I think to focus on a word itself is to kind of miss the point of the tune. OK, so what is it with you and the word honey bear? He's on Bella Union, isn't he? He has a honeybear song? No. Your honey bear song – last time I heard that word in music was on a John Grant record. Luckily, Father John Misty - raised in the suburbs of Washington D.C., nowadays resident in New Orleans - was willing to give a demonstration of his more immediately readable self during his recent stop-over in London. And when I heard this fabulously unlikely melange of an album - warmly personal and searingly satirical at the same time - I had no idea what the man who had made it would be like to talk to.

So when 'I Love You, Honeybear' appeared through my letter box, I had no idea what to expect. I had missed 'Fear Fun', the first Father John Misty album, released in 2012, and I had missed even more comprehensively all the albums Joshua Tillman had put out earlier under the banner of ' J.

Misty and then there was you