I Do Think That Music Has A

To Outsiders It Probably Seems Like Splitting Hairs, But To Me, Bright Eyes Is A Simply The Collaboration Between Myself And Mike Mogis And Nate Walcott. What You Hear Is Definitely The Sum Of All Our Ideas And Represents All Three Of Us. But I Still Write The Songs Myself.

We're All Too Busy Working, Entertaining Ourselves With Forty Hours, Television And Prescription Pills Well, I Take Two A Day To Help My Brain Behave It Never Does, But Who's To Say? At Least My Doctor Gets Paid.

All Those Experiences Were A Chance To Learn More About Music. Playing With The Valley Band Is Like Such A "live" Band. I Mean, Really, In Many Ways Bright Eyes Is Really A Studio Project. We Form Bands To Tour, But It Really Is - You Know, We Take The Songs And We Figure Out How To Decorate Them And It's All In The Studio, We Build The Songs That Way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band Was The Exact Opposite, Where Everybody Knows What They Are Gonna Be Playing On The Song And There's Sort Of A General Stylistic Approach, And Then It's Just Plug In And Play.

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When You Look At What People Consider Success In The Music Industry, It's Just Terrible Music.