I Swear That I'm Dying Slowly But

We're Going To Sing About Things That Matter To Us. The Balancing Act Is To Present These Ideas But Also Make The Music Exciting And Sort Of Fun Enough That Even If You're Not Paying Attention To The Lyrics, You Might Still Like The Songs Anyway. That's The Idea.

On Every Bright Eyes Record, There's Some Kind Of Sound Collage That Begins It. Some Of Them Have Dialogue, Some Don't. I Like It Because It Can Kind Of Slow Down The Attention Span A Bit. It's A Way To Draw You In To The Rest Of The Record.

It's In Vogue To Have A Cause And Give Money In Charity. But To Actually Speak Up And Say Something Like, I'm Pissed About This" - That Doesn't Seem To Be Very Popular Unless You're Writing A Blog Or Tweeting.

I Think That Hip-hop Is More Of An Individual Effort. That Means You're An Artist From The Streets, They Expect You To Rap About The Streets, Because That's What Happens There.

The Bible's Blind, The Torah's Deaf, The Qur'an Is Mute; If You Burned Them All Together You'd Get Close To The Truth.