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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Beginning
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Nov 07, 2020

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

Classic
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Nov 07, 2020

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.

Cool
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Nov 07, 2020

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

Perspective
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Nov 07, 2020

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

Kids
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Nov 07, 2020

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

Nov 07, 2020

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

Extraordinary
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Nov 07, 2020

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

Nov 07, 2020

I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant, and then walk from there to another nice place - this is, I guess, because of really great dates that I've had with my wife here in Portland.

Nov 07, 2020

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.

Cool
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Nov 07, 2020

I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

Person
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Nov 07, 2020

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

Nov 07, 2020

I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.

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