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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a social act.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.
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- Nov 07, 2020