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== Interviews == 2009, ''The New York Times Magazine'', Murdoch, who was experiencing a period of improved health, talked about his experience of trying to gain recovery from [[myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME]]: <blockquote>Murdoch attended church as a child but drifted away as a teenager. In the depth of his illness, he began attending services at Hyndland Parish Church in Glasgow and joined the choir. Eventually he became the church’s handyman and moved into an apartment on the church’s grounds. (He’s still the youth coordinator for the parish.) 'I could cling to God or go the other way,' Murdoch said. 'And the other way would have been oblivion.' One day he visited a faith healer in his neighborhood. She placed her hands above his body for an hour. “I actually got sicker for a few months, and I feel that was when the demons were being cast out,” Murdoch told me as we hiked the beginning of the West Highland Way on a rare, clear Scottish afternoon. Murdoch’s health has largely rebounded — his energy has returned to near-preillness levels (though he’s still susceptible to colds that can linger for weeks)...<ref name="NYT2009"/></blockquote> * May 2015, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s2y70 Key of Life Interview with Mary Anne of BBC Radio 6 Music]<ref name="Keyoflife">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s2y70 | title = Stuart Murdoch: Key of Life Interview with Mary Anne, More with Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian, Mary Anne Hobbs - BBC Radio 6 Music | last = Hobbs | first = Mary Anne | date = May 2015 | website = BBC|language=en-GB|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2018-08-30}}</ref> *Aug 2015, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=69&v=xMcZ-UTlRmU Solve ME/CFS interview Stuart in L.A.]<ref name="video2015">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcZ-UTlRmU | title = Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian ME/CFS Interview in L.A. | last=Murdoch | first = Stuart | date = Sep 2, 2015 | website = YouTube|publisher=SolveCFS|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=}}</ref> * 2015, Interview with the [[Solve ME/CFS Initiative]], Stuart talked in a newly in depth and revealing way of his relapses and how [[myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME]] has affected his life, the band, and his songwriting. He stated: <blockquote>"I feel a little bit guilty because I haven't spoken up about [[myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME]] for years and years. But I think with the last LP I basically had a relapse in the past two or three years, and it directly affected the work we were doing and then, it affected the songs I was writing and I had to talk about it during interviews...It's quite freeing to be able to talk about it. I kept so much of it secret for so long... "When my band started and I started writing music and I got energy and my group came together, there was no point in talking to non-ME people about ME. It's so exhausting to try and explain what you're doing....At some point in the day you just have to disappear...It seems rude, but you just have to do it...I didn't mean to make it secret, it was just easier... "[The past couple years, including when my son was born] it's been a cycle of virus and post-virus ever since...That's the thing about the show, you know. It's a great life...It can work great, but when I get sick, it just turns into the worse, because on top of the actual being away from home and just feeling so miserable, you have to do the show. They really will prop you up in front of a microphone, because so many people rely on you. You just can't afford not to... [[myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME]] people are marginalized...I was a second-class citizen. I, sometimes still feel like a second-class citizen, certainty when in Britain...It was easier to put the metaphor of other [marginalized groups into the songs] because [[myalgic encephalomyelitis|ME]] is almost too difficult to talk about. Or it's not dramatic enough or something...<ref name="video2015" /></blockquote> *Aug 2018, [https://themindmap.co.uk/interviews/belle-and-sebastian-going-through-the-emotions/ Belle and Sebastian – Going Through The Emotions]<ref name="mindmap2018">{{Cite news | url=https://themindmap.co.uk/interviews/belle-and-sebastian-going-through-the-emotions/ | title = Belle and Sebastian - Stuart Murdoch - Going Through The Emotions | last = Bennett | first = Sue | date = Aug 2018|work=The Mind Map|access-date=2018-08-30|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|language=en-GB}}</ref> *Sep 2018, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=IMTVqv6rw6c Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian on ME/CFS: "This is a real thing - let's fix it."]<ref name="fixit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=IMTVqv6rw6c | title = Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian on ME/CFS: "This is a real thing - let's fix it." | last = Murdoch | first = Stuart | date = Sep 13, 2018 | website = YouTube|publisher=Open Medicine Foundation|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=}}</ref> *Oct 2018, [https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/health/chronic-fatigue-stuart-murdoch-belle-sebastian-turning-points/index.html Indie pop sensation's disease became his muse]<ref name="CNN2018">{{Cite news | url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/health/chronic-fatigue-stuart-murdoch-belle-sebastian-turning-points/index.html | title = Indie pop sensation's disease became his muse | last = Prior | first = Ryan|work=CNN|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> [[Ryan Prior]] produced Dr. Sanjay Gupta's ''Turning Points'' interview with Stuart, a short segment and an article.
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