Songwriting Is A Really Fortunate Skill To

You Hit A Guitar, You Hit A Note, You Hit A Drum, You Hit An Organ. Meat And Potatoes. Simplicity. Not Getting Too Caught Up In Little Tweezers Of Perfection.

I Was Grateful To Be Away From All That Familiarity, To Have A Chance To Do Something Anonymously.

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.