People Are Looking For Fame Or A

People Are Looking For Fame Or A Focus, And I Can't Provide That.

I Valued The Experience Of Making The Recordings, And I Value The Performances Contained Therein, And I Value So Much Of What They Can Represent. I Also Think They're A Terrific Listening Experience. Putting Them Out This Way Was A Way Of Trying To Maintain And Nurture The Relationship With The Audience And Also Shine A Light On The Recent Past, Because We Are So Apt To Be Forgetful As Human Beings That There Was Such A Thing As A Recent Past. These Are Some Of The Reasons For Making This Record.

The Sense Of Waking Up In The Morning And Knowing That There Is Music Ahead Of Me In The Day Is Such An Incredible Feeling. The More I Engage With Music The More Days I Wake Up And Know That That's What's Going To Be There, And The Things That Come With Music.

A Record Is Something That Isn't Real Or True. It's Like Cinema. It's A Construction Of Something Hyper-real And Surreal And Unreal All At The Same Time. You Make A Space That Doesn't Really Exist. One Of The Big Joys Of Being In This Line Of Work Is Building The Recorded Versions Of The Songs.

The Less People Present In An Urgent Situation That A Moderately High Stakes Recording Session Can Create - The Less People There Are In The Room - The More Openness There Can Be. These Songs Share That As Well, In Addition To Just The Obvious, Basic Starkness.