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Long, rambling, raw transcript of a Grant Morrison interview:

I thought, 'What the Hell is Disney?' Walt Disney's dead now but Disney persists as a concept and people who were born after the death of Walt Disney grow up and assume positions within Disney. What are they assuming positions within? It's in this really devotional way too. What makes you grow up to wear a Mickey Mouse head and go round scaring children? Or 'I'm going to end up on the Board of Directors of Disney?' Why, why do these things occur? So I was just seeing them as in the way the Demons in the old Grimoires were seen which was kinda aggregates of power to which people could adhere themselves to or join in cultish fashion so I began to think I could talk to them like that and use ceremonial magic methods to talk to corporations and found there were ways of doing it — that's why I'm wearing a suit — this is my magical garb for this working.

[...] My Uncle Billy would give me magic books, like you I was into myths and legends, my family were very witchy, my mother read tea leaves but nothing interesting ever happened to me, or so I thought, like you say - I never thought about it in those terms, I would sit and talk with imaginary friends, communicating with foxes in the hills and all that kinda stuff which I later realised was quite shamanic or totemistic. But Billy would give me these books, this was when I was a teenager having a shitty time above Fine Fare — I started looking at these books: instead of just window dressing for the kind of stories I was making up when I was a teenager, y'know, you'd do some occult thing and the witch is wanting to say something with the entity, so I'd look up the book on witchcraft and copy out the spells an I began to think, 'Well, what are these actually saying, what is this?' and I was like 19 and I did a ritual from one of the books to se if it worked and it worked! I got a manifestation of energy which seemed to exert a gravitation pull on me — again, this is no bullshit - it was an intense, emotional vortex, or whatever the hell it was, with this strange visual component. And when I realised it worked I began to do lots of experiments and I've been doing it ever since to see how it works. In the nineties I realised the work I was doing was the magic, it was the same thing, which is where Flex Mentallo came from initially and then The Invisibles came from that, The Invisibles became the ongoing experiment into how closely I could get these things to work by actually drawing things by actually writing things down and making them happen. As is legendary to anyone whose read The Invisibles, I ended up in hospital.

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