I Don't Want To Mislead People.

I'll Admit That I'm Not Quite Certain How To Sum Up An Entire Year In Music Anymore; Not When Music Has Become So Temporal, So Specific And Personal, As If We Each Have Our Own Weather System And What We Listen To Is Our Individual Forecast.

I Like To Take Things Incrementally, And Strive For Something That Feels More Attainable.

I Think Short-term Goals Are Important. Trying To Set A Missive For Yourself For The Entire Year Can Be Daunting, And It Can Feel Too Easy To Fail Or Fall Short Of That.

I Think A Lot Of The Intention Of Bands, Especially In The Last Year, Is To Spread Themselves Out Geographically And Borrow From Different Cultures And Different Sounds, And To Be Eclectic. And That's Great In Terms Of Dynamics, But It Also Tends To Not Have That Torpedo And Fire Running Through It. If You're Spreading Yourself Out Across The Globe, You're Also Not Emphasizing A Singular Point, Which I Think Great Rock Music Has Always Done.

Over The Years, Music Put A Weapon In My Hand And Words In My Mouth It Backed Me Up And Shielded Me, It Shook Me And Scared Me And Showed Me The Way; Music Opened Me Up To Living And Being And Feeling.