I Do An Opening In 'the Glory

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

As A Kid You Learn That There Are Thinkers And There Are Philosophers And There Are Theologian, And I'd Hear Little Bits Of The Ideas That These People Pursued Or Developed Or Created And I'd Be Really Excited. Then I'll Start To Read It And I Think, "wait A Minute, This Is A Rabbit Hole. This Isn't A Gateway Or A Ticket To Anything Except Itself."

To Me, The Best Purpose Of An Interview Would Be To Illuminate Some Things About How Somebody Works For The Benefit Of Somebody Else Who Wants To Do Those Things. And That's Not Where Most Interviews Go At All, So To Me, They Seem Like Strange Exercises In Small Talk And Wasted Air.

It's Nice To Be Able To Backtrack And Not Be Embarrassed By The Music You Used To Listen To.

The Less People Present In An Urgent Situation That A Moderately High Stakes Recording Session Can Create - The Less People There Are In The Room - The More Openness There Can Be. These Songs Share That As Well, In Addition To Just The Obvious, Basic Starkness.