‘You see why I don’t have a Twitter account? [Clark has a Twitter account.] Bitch-fits at artists all the way – it’d be terrible. I feel guilty even saying this stuff in private! Apart from about huge cultural hog-bags like Dylan obviously [winking keyboard smiley]. Too much reverence around lone cult figures is like cultural plutonium.’

Dots & Dashes hurl a few concise interrogations in the general direction of Clark’s inbox…