The Hedonistic Lifestyle Is Difficult To Achieve

It's Very Common To Think That We're Always Evolving, That We've Changed So Much From Our Younger Selves, That Within Decades We've Transformed Into These Different People. We Like To Think That. I Feel In Some Ways That I Am Still So Much My Younger Self. There Are Ways That I'm Different: I Feel Like I'm Wiser And Kinder. But I Think A Lot Of The Impulses Are Still The Same. I Learned That.

I Think That The Intentions Are Genuine In The Search For Authenticity, But It Can Tip Over Into Absurdity So Quickly. I Just Start To Wonder, Like, What Authenticity Even Is, And Whether We Can Even Start To Define It In Such A Globalized World.

I've Noticed That As Someone Who Has Done Music And Creative Things In Washington State And Portland, To Kind Of Toot Your Own Horn, Or Admit, "i'm Going For It. I'm Hustling," Is Not Exactly The Norm. Which Is Weird, Because You Go To New York, Or La, Or Anywhere Else, You've Got To Be Gunning For It - And You Should Be - You're Part Of A Fast-moving Stream Of Other People Who Are Really Ambitious. People Move Here To Work Less. So, To Say That You're Hustling All The Time, And Going For It, Is Kind Of A Little Bit Against The Grain Here.

It Does Feel Great To Be Writing, But The Process Is Sometimes Excruciating.

With Sleater-kinney, We Did A Lot Of Improvisation In Our Live Shows, And Even Our Process Of Songwriting Involved Bringing In Disparate Parts And Putting Them Together To Form Something Cohesive.