If I Loved You, Well That's My

All Those Experiences Were A Chance To Learn More About Music. Playing With The Valley Band Is Like Such A "live" Band. I Mean, Really, In Many Ways Bright Eyes Is Really A Studio Project. We Form Bands To Tour, But It Really Is - You Know, We Take The Songs And We Figure Out How To Decorate Them And It's All In The Studio, We Build The Songs That Way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band Was The Exact Opposite, Where Everybody Knows What They Are Gonna Be Playing On The Song And There's Sort Of A General Stylistic Approach, And Then It's Just Plug In And Play.

When People Have Real Faith In Something, It's Fascinating To Me. And The Fact That So Many People, In Surveys, So Many People Say They Do. It Kind Of Blows My Mind.

When I Try To Explain To People The Big Influences In My Life, Or At Least When I First Started, The Most Important Ones Were My Friends Who Were Also Writing Songs And Were Typically Four Or Five Years Older Than Me.

It Seems Like Everything I Do Musically I Tend To Lose A Few Fans And Gain A Few Fans, And It All Kind Of Evens Out.

I Like To Feel The Burn Of The Audience's Eyes When I'm Whispering All My Darkest Secrets Into The Microphone.