I Don't Like The Idea Of Being

What Is Normally Called Religion Is What I Would Tend To Call Music - Participating In Music, Listening To Music, Making Records And Singing.

A Vocal Performance “coming Together” Is Hard, But It's The Kind Of Hard That If You Work Hard Enough At It, You Can Do It And It Feels Great, Because It Was So Hard. So We'll Continue Maybe Even Over The Next Couple Of Years To Perform That And To Expand Our Collaborative Repertoire.

I Had A Lot Of Time To Myself, And I Would Listen To A Lot Of Music, Mostly Music That I Knew Fairly Well And Had A Relationship With. And I'd Think, Well, What Is It That I've Never Been Able To Do That This Person Or People Are Able To Do With This Song? Why Haven't I Been Able To Do It, And What Can They Do That I Wish I Could Do? And Then I'd Try To Do That. I'd Start Each Day Getting Into The Songs, And I'd Think About How I Might Get Closer To This Music That I Love, But Haven't Been Able To Make Before.

I Have A Mantra That Kind Of Explains My Feelings On This Subject, Which Is, "the Past Is The Present Is The Future." When You're Recording Something, You're Making Something That Will Exist In The Future.

The Songs Are Not Meant To Be Real Life. They're Meant To Have A Psychic - Rather Than A Factual - Bearing On The Listener. It's Rare That A Song Grounded In Reality Moves Me Because I Don't Feel Like I'm Getting The Whole Story. Songs Are Made To Exist In And Of Themselves, Like A Great James Jones Or Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.