Songwriting Is A Really Fortunate Skill To

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.

You Realize Time Isn't Just A Period That You Tell A Story Within - It Becomes A Major Character In The Film. There Is No Beginning, Middle, End Because There Is Always Stuff Beginning And Ending Simultaneously.

Because There's Just So Much In A Day Now, I Keep Writing In Much More Abstract Terms, Like I Don't Try To Write About What Happened Anymore. It Would Be Impossible.

When I Stopped Touring, It Was Like Trying To Stop A Bullet Train Or A Giant Lead Ball Falling From A 100 Stories Up - It's Momentum And It Doesn't Just Stop. I Drew A Line In The Calendar And Made It A Brick Wall And Just Stopped Dead. There Was No Other Way. It Would've Taken Another 100 Years To Slow Down Slowly. 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.

For Me, The Best Part Is People Who Watch The Movie And Tell Me It Inspired Them To Collaborate With Their Friend Who's A Photographer Or Filmmaker.