Shaun Ryder would be "doing crack cocaine" without the today's technology

The New Cue writers really like Shaun Ryder's new album 'Visits From Future Technology' so they talked to the former Happy Monday, touching the issue of today's technology and the possibility to work remotely. 25 years ago "the only thing I would have been doing would have been crack cocaine and heroin", Ryder says. Speaking about time passing, he says "the thing is, as you get older time goes really quickly. If you think to the five years you spent from 11 to 16, that seemed like a million fucking years. It's 11 years since I was in the jungle, but to me that's five minutes ago. And it's five minutes ago when I made this album". About his lyrics: "There's loads of metaphors in that and I can't fucking remember what they were doubling up for. You sort of smuggle and cover up lyrics but now I can't remember what I was fucking metaphoring about!".