And I'm Lost Behind The Words I'll

If You Are Trying To Think Ahead Musically, It Is Not Going To Help You. It Is Better To Ignore What Is Happening Melodically And Just Look At The Little Dots Coming At You And The Corresponding Colors And Try To Do It At The Right Time.

To Me, Music Shouldn't Be Ego-driven. When You Go Out On Stage And Play Songs, It Is. But When You're Sitting In A Room, Writing Songs, It's A Completely Different Process. It's A Completely Different Place. It's A Creative Place, A Musical Place. It Has Nothing To Do With Who Likes What.

There's Something About Losing Friends, Particularly Young People, Where It's Not Something That You Get Over. I Don't Believe There's A Healing Process.

I'm Pretty Critical, But I'm Also Pretty Good At Letting Go Once It's Done. There's This Existential Argument That Comes In, At Some Point, When You're Over-thinking The Songwriting Process. There's No Guarantee That The More Time You Spend Or The More You Concentrate On Certain Aspects That That's Going To Produce A Better Result, Especially In The Arts. Some Of The Most Brilliant Things That Someone Might Do Could Happen In Three Minutes Because It's Something That Just Occurs To Them.

Be Yourself Is All That You Can Do.