From an interview with Ian McCulloch of British post-punk ‘80s hitmakers Echo & The Bunnymen, in the current issue (#220) of MOJO magazine:
And those European tours in 1980-81—that was the real Bunnymen—in bars after the gig, where it was open all night, with some narky barman, where you started learning really how to drink properly, and be who you are properly. Just the sound of it, the life, the accents, especially the French language—that was the perfume to me, the drug of choice. And that’s where I got stuff like The Killing Moon from. I woke up with that lyric, “Fate up against your will,” as if God had given it to me in my sleep. Recently, I realized what it is—it’s that soliloquoy, ‘To be or not to be’—but it’s even better, because I’m fuckin’ singing it.