You Make The World - With Enough

A Record Is Something That Isn't Real Or True. It's Like Cinema. It's A Construction Of Something Hyper-real And Surreal And Unreal All At The Same Time. You Make A Space That Doesn't Really Exist. One Of The Big Joys Of Being In This Line Of Work Is Building The Recorded Versions Of The Songs.

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.

It's Good When Someone Says, "would You Write A Song For This Purpose," Or "would You Record A Song For This Purpose," Or "would You Help Me Realize This Song," Again, For This Purpose.

It's Definitely Important To Be Open Enough To Seize An Opportunity When The Opportunity Is There.

The Ideal Is To Put On Shows Where, If You Go Into The Same Space Again, You Don't Remember Ever Having Been There Before, Because Where You Were Was A Space That Only Existed That One Time, Created By The Music.