When I Listen To Little Fourth-dimension Artifacts,

For Me, Promotional Thing About Some New Album Coming Out Destroys A Lot Of The Excitement Of Making Records. Records, Movies, Books - They're Not Supposed To Be Like Math Books. The Purpose Of Them Is To Kind Of Take Us Out Of Ourselves And Give Us Some Sort Of Alternate Experience Or Respite. To Try To Maximize The Relationship Of Listening To A Record Through Promotion Is Like Experiencing Driving A Car By Reading About Stimulus Programs. It Kind Of Defeats The Purpose.

Writing Songs Is A Profession; So It's Not An Attempt To Take Things From My Interactions With Other People And For Some Reason Give Them To A Total Stranger To Listen To. I Find It Offensive To Hear Other People Do That.

The Songs Are Not Meant To Be Real Life. They're Meant To Have A Psychic - Rather Than A Factual - Bearing On The Listener. It's Rare That A Song Grounded In Reality Moves Me Because I Don't Feel Like I'm Getting The Whole Story. Songs Are Made To Exist In And Of Themselves, Like A Great James Jones Or Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.

I Think That What Trips Up A Lot Of Great Musicians Is That They Become Involved With Too Many Things That Aren't Where Their Strengths Lie.

There Are A Limited Number Of Promoters Out There Who Care About Creating Music. You Rarely Meet A Promoter Who's Like, "i Want To Be Responsible For The Best Shows, I Want To Make Sure That These Are The Best Shows These Audiences Have Ever Seen."