When I'm In New York, I Just

I Think That We Live In A Time Where It's Easier To Be Suspicious Of Dedicated Men And Women, People Dedicated To Their Craft, Because The World Around Them Inspires Them To Be Lazy. It Inspires Them To Be Negative. It Inspires Them To Be Snarky.

This Is Going To Sound Crazy, But I Can Hear Music In My Head. I Can Imagine A Piano Or A Guitar Playing, And I Can Sort Of Think Out.

It Sounds Like I'm Channeling Or Something, And I Don't Really Fully Understand What It Is. I'll Get A Piece Of Paper And Write Down What I Think Is Coming To Me. And I'll Play It Once. Whether It's Being Recorded Or Not, I Can Then Usually Remember It For A Sometimes Shocking Amount Of Time.

When I Start Working On A Batch Of Tunes - Like Roughly 10 Solid Tunes - I Always Know There'll Be Another 10 To Follow, Because For Every Song I Invest A Lot Of Time In, There's Another Song Waiting Behind It.

Caitlin Cary And I Were Always Talking About X When We Talked About Whiskeytown, Before It Became An Actual Band. We Like The Concept Of There Being No Real Front Person In X, Yet This Kind Of Switch Up Of Vocals And Really Their Sheer Power, And Their Ability To Sort Of Bastardise Punk Rock And Midwetsren Rock And Even Country Into Their Own Sound.