I Quit Drinking Every Night, At 1:30

I Was A Nervous Young Man. I Wanted To Do So Many Things. And I Was So Enthusiastic And Earnestly In Love With So Many Things That I Tried Too Hard. I Tried Really, Really Hard. And I Made A Lot Of Mistakes. I Was Afraid Of A Lot Of Stuff. And I Kind Of Feel Bad For That Person I Was.

For Any Producer I've Ever Worked With, Their Toughest Job Is To Convince Me To Not To Obscure My Vocals. A Lot Of People Don't Like The Sound Of Their Own Voice On, Like, Cassette Tape Or Something. It's Like That For Me, And Other Songwriters I Know. Like, "oh God, That's What I Sound Like?"

To Conceive Music, To Execute It In Front Of Others, To Make It So Others Can Do It...it Can Be Pretty Humbling, And Kind Of Scary. So Yeah, I Don't Really Feel In Competition With Anybody. Not Because I Feel Elitist, But Because I Have Enough Self-competition. I'm Always Struggling.

For Me, A Record Is Valid When I Actually Hold The Vinyl. Like, I've Worked On The Art For A While And I See The Vinyl And I Go "ooh, It's An Actual Lp. How Cool Is That?" That's Very Sacred To Me. You Can't Take That Back, You Know?

That's Why I Played Music; My Social Skills Were Limited. I Think A Lot Of People That Experience That Pick Up Guitars, Because They Can't Communicate Otherwise.