I Have No Desire To Play Music

I Think Grief Is A Step Towards Strength Because It Allows You To Be Porous And Take Everything In, And Have It Transform You. What Will Sit Within You Is Despairing, But At Least It's Feeling. You're Not Numb. Grief Is Sort Of The Allowance Of Feeling.

The Idea Of Self-effacement, The Idea That You Feel So Powerless That The Only Tiny Morsel Of Power You Have Is Over Your Own Ability To Deny Yourself Food - That To Me Is A Very Profound And Sad Methodology And Indicator Of How Powerless A Lot Of People Feel In This World. That They Will Turn That Onto Themselves Until They Are Physically Smaller. I Think It's Affected My Worldview A Lot - Just Being Sensitive And Empathetic Towards The Ways People Want To Be Small. I Don't Wish Smallness For Anyone.

As A Kid, Before I Got Into Music, I Did All The Drama Classes, Went To Theater Camp In The Summers, So It Wasn't Totally A Foreign World.

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.

You'd Hope That No Writing About Music Could Supersede The Music Itself. But I Do Think That Blogs Mirror The Way That We Are Listening. It Comes At You Fast And It's Timely And Then Five Minutes Later We're On To Something Else. It Caters To Our Desire For Instant Gratification. And I Think Blogs Also Have Fluidity That's Exciting. You Have A Lot Of Real Enthusiastic Music Fans For The Most Part That Are Writing Sometimes For A Large Audience, And I Think Certain Blogs Have A Little Too Much Power Over What Someone Likes Or Doesn't Like.