Love Is A State That I Would

We Cannot Afford To Be Idle. To Act On A Bad Idea Is Better Than To Not Act At All. Because The Worth Of The Idea Never Becomes Apparent Until You Do It. Sometimes This Idea Can Be The Smallest Thing In The World, A Little Flame That You Hunch Over And Cup With Your Hand, And Pray Will Not Be Extinguished By All The Storm That Howls About It. If You Could Hold Onto That Flame, Great Things Could Construct Around It, That Are Massive And Powerful And World Changing, All Held Up By The Tiniest Of Ideas.

In The Hysterical Technocracy Of Modern Music, Sorrow Is Sent To The Back Of The Class Where It Sits, Pissing Its Pants In Mortal Terror.

Musicians Are At The Bottom Of The Creative Pyramid And Authors Are At The Top, And Many People Think It's Unacceptable For Someone To Attempt To Jump From The Bottom To The Top Of The Pyramid.

And I Wish That I Was Made Of Stone So That I Would Not Have To See A Beauty Impossible To Define A Beauty Impossible To Believe A Beauty Impossible To Endure The Blood Imparted In Little Sips The Smell Of You Still On My Hands As I Bring The Cup Up To My Lips No God Up In The Sky No Devil Beneath The Sea Could Do The Job That You Did, Baby Of Bringing Me To My Knees

The Idea Of Songwriting Is A Transformative Thing, And What I Do With Songwriting Is Take Situations That Are Quite Ordinary And Transform Them In Some Way. Apart From Things Like The Murder Ballads, The Songs I Write, At Their Core, Are Quite Ordinary Human Concerns, But The Process Of Writing About Them Transforms Them Into Something Else.