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To Be A Fan Is To Be Curious, And To Be Curious Is To Have Openness... Part Of Being A Fan Is To Allow 360 Degrees Of Experience - To Immerse Without Judgment. It's Like A Really Fearless Step Forward Into New Experience. There's Something That Feels Very Timeless About Fandom.

I Read A Lot; Fiction And Non-fiction Are The Mediums I Find Most Edifying And Inspiring. I Watch Movies And Listen To Music And Take Lots And Lots Of Walks. Nature Is A Nice Reset Button For Me, It's How I Get A Lot Of Thinking Done.

You Do Have To Live Through Things, And To Live Through Things Is To Observe Want, And To Observe Lacking. Even If The Hunger Is A Curiosity.

I Grew Up Outside Of Seattle, And Have Lived Here My Whole Life, And I Think That There Is A Culture Of Questioning, And Guilt. Almost An "anti-ambition." Like, An Awareness, And Then A Subsequent Guilt. But Sometimes That Progressive, Liberal Guilt Is Really Obnoxious, Too - In Some Ways, I Think It's Better To Just Own It. It's Weird, That Actually, The Acknowledgement Of Privilege Or The Enactment Of Guilt Can Be As Obnoxious As Anything Else. It's A Never-ending Rabbit Hole. We're Really In A Rabbit Hole Right Now, With This Conversation. We're Just Spiraling Down Into The Void.

It Was Writing About Music For Npr - Connecting With Music Fans And Experiencing A Sense Of Community - That Made Me Want To Write Songs Again. I Began To Feel I Was In My Head Too Much About Music, Too Analytical.