'If you don't have silence, there's no point in having noise'

Billy Childish has published 40 collections of poetry, released 100 albums of his music and completed more than 2,000 paintings. In the last month alone, he's published three volumes of poetry; a new exhibition of his art is on show at London's Aquarium Gallery; a new live acoustic album is imminent; and an appreciation of his work by the writer and artist Neal Brown has been published. He speaks to the Guardian's Jon Dennis.