You're Hoping That It's Going To Be

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.

Sometimes We Need To Tell Ourselves That We're Not Going To Do Certain Things, Just In Order To Stay Sane.

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.

Too Much Emphasis Is Put On American Roots Music When People Try And Place Me. You Know, I Grew Up Listening To Punk.

You Make The World - With Enough Strength And Enough Luck You Make The World That You Live In. If You Accept That There's Participation To Be Done And An Existence To Be Had - I Tend To Think There Is Only One Way I Want To Go Through This Existence And That's With My Eyes Open And My Chest Out.