I Quit Drinking Every Night, At 1:30

Some People Want To Go Forever, I Just Want To Burn Off Hard And Bright.

It Sounds Like I'm Channeling Or Something, And I Don't Really Fully Understand What It Is. I'll Get A Piece Of Paper And Write Down What I Think Is Coming To Me. And I'll Play It Once. Whether It's Being Recorded Or Not, I Can Then Usually Remember It For A Sometimes Shocking Amount Of Time.

There Are Times When I Want To Be Plainspoken About My Feelings In A Song. But There Are Other Times When It's Really Good To Try And Get My Head Around Different Kinds Of Song Structures, Or Maybe I Might Get Turned On By Trying To Write A Song That Would Fit In This One Scene In A Movie. And By The End Of All This, You Just End Up With A Bunch Of Different Ideas. And Songs Are Really Just Ideas.

To Conceive Music, To Execute It In Front Of Others, To Make It So Others Can Do It...it Can Be Pretty Humbling, And Kind Of Scary. So Yeah, I Don't Really Feel In Competition With Anybody. Not Because I Feel Elitist, But Because I Have Enough Self-competition. I'm Always Struggling.

Forever Only Takes Its Toll On Some