"Children make you feel mortal," Firth says. "Before you have kids, there's an invisible thread that's attached to your youth and your birth in some way. Once you've got them, that thread is now attached to the other end of your life somehow. It's their turn to be beginners. You have to move over." And although he's embraced his role as a parent, he says matter-of-factly, "I'm absolutely certain that it's not for everyone."
It's with a similar frankness that Firth muses about the relationship between England and the United States. "English popular culture has absorbed a great deal of American popular culture, and vice versa. Music has been very much the catalyst for that. We've regurgitated and re-regurgitated each other's influences. There would have been no Beatles without American rock 'n' roll, and there would have been no Hendrix without the [Rolling] Stones," he says....more
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