It Is More Rewarding To Be Complicit

Venues Are All The Same, All Feel The Same, These Generic Blank Spaces. I Like Artists Like Lightning Bolt-bands That Go In And Kind Of Change Things Every Time, Play On The Floor, Set Up In The Middle Of The Room. They Go In And They Reinvent The Space Every Time, Which I Feel Is Like The Kind Of Thing That Should Just Be Happening.

If We Were Making A Record In Kentucky, There Might Be Some More Elements That Recall A Time, A Place, Or A Relationship. Recording For The Bbc You Enter Into This Strange And Wonderful, But Kind Of Sterile, Place With Which You Have No Personal History, And That's The Maida Vale Studios At Bbc In London.

As A Kid You Learn That There Are Thinkers And There Are Philosophers And There Are Theologian, And I'd Hear Little Bits Of The Ideas That These People Pursued Or Developed Or Created And I'd Be Really Excited. Then I'll Start To Read It And I Think, "wait A Minute, This Is A Rabbit Hole. This Isn't A Gateway Or A Ticket To Anything Except Itself."

I Feel Much More Physically Connected To My Voice, And I Like The Physicality Of The Voice, And How The Voice Can Physically Occupy A Song.

To Sing With Other People And For Other People, That's When You Can Really Learn Something About Your Voice. You Can Only Learn So Much If You Create Your Own Boundaries All The Time. But Then, Other People Can Really Teach You Something. You Know, If You're Trying To Sing With Them, Or If Someone Brings A Style.