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I Was Worried Before I Saw The Play 'the Seven Storey Mountain', Thinking I Don't Really Want To See A Play About Thomas Merton. He Probably Wouldn't Have Either, Ideally. Then It Isn't. It's More About Us And It's About Our Relationship To What He May Or May Not Have Thought About. It's Its Own Thing Completely.

If We Were Making A Record In Kentucky, There Might Be Some More Elements That Recall A Time, A Place, Or A Relationship. Recording For The Bbc You Enter Into This Strange And Wonderful, But Kind Of Sterile, Place With Which You Have No Personal History, And That's The Maida Vale Studios At Bbc In London.

I Figure It's Okay To Make Certain Rules, Whether Or Not People Despise You For It At The Time.

We Always Keep Things Very, Very Simple. We Can Make A Respectable Living Playing A Smaller Room That Somebody Else Couldn't, Because They're Spending A Lot Of Money. If We Can't Get A Show Up And Deliver With What We Almost Intrinsically Have In Our Brains And Our Pockets, Then I Don't Really Want To Do It.

At The Same Time, You Don't Want To Be Blindsided At Some Point Because You've Taken Too Much Comfort From Knowing Nothing. So You Try To Keep A Little Store Of Practical Knowledge. At A Certain Point You Have To Pretend That Something Is True In Order To Have A Relationship With The World.