I Said I'd Stop For A Year,

Be Alone Even When There's A Million People Around, Because Tomorrow It Will Be A Different Million People.

No Matter Who Weaves In And Out Of Your Life, Regardless Of The Quality Of Those Deep Friendships And Familyships, I'm The Only Common Denominator At This Point Who's Been With Me The Whole Time. And There's This Sense Of Trying To Make Sense Of That Ultimate Solitude. It's Not A Negative Or Even A Positive. It's Just A Fact.

When I Stopped Touring, It Was Like Trying To Stop A Bullet Train Or A Giant Lead Ball Falling From A 100 Stories Up - It's Momentum And It Doesn't Just Stop. I Drew A Line In The Calendar And Made It A Brick Wall And Just Stopped Dead. There Was No Other Way. It Would've Taken Another 100 Years To Slow Down Slowly. I Had To Let Myself Imagine A Calendar With No Lines; When Every Single Day Is Being Predetermined Six Months In Advance, There's No More Fluidity To Time.

Surreal Can Be Exciting And Good, And It Can Be Like Living Inside An Alien Landscape, And It Can Be Completely Interesting, Or You Can Be Alienated From Your Own Life - Inside Your Own Life, It Doesnt Feel Familiar Any More.

The Group-effort Sound In Recording Of Sea Lion Is Like, You Really Hear All The People In The Room And Hear Them Interlocking. Theres A Real Freight-train Energy Of All These People At The Same Time Playing.