I Love Coffee. I Love A Midday

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.

You Can Never Underestimate That Moment Of Somebody Explaining Your Life To You, Something You Thought Was Inexplicable, Through Music. That Was The Way Out Of Loneliness.

It's Hard To Beat The Visceral High Of Playing Live And Creating Something Spontaneous.

I Think We As People Struggle For What Is Meaningful In Our Lives, And I Think That Modern, Contemporary Life Is As Easy As It's Ever Been, For Many, Many People, And The Amount Of Physical Exertion, For Most People, Is Less Than It's Ever Been. I Think That There Is Something About The Ritual Of Making Things More Difficult That People Find Meaning In.

I Think, For Some Artists, The Fear Of Taking On A Political Identity Stems From Not Wanting To Be Pigeonholed As Political Actor Or A Political Musician. It Becomes This Thing Where Somehow Your Art Can No Longer Exist On Its Own And Be Multifaceted.