So When Your New Eyes Meet Mine

If I Could Act Like This Was My Real Life, And Not Some Cage Where I've Been Placed, Well Then, I Could Tell You The Truth Like I Used To And Not Be Afraid Of Sounding Fake.

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.

I'm A Real Music Fan, So I Listen To All Kinds Of Music All The Time. I Listen To A Lot Of What My Friends Or People I Know Are Listening To. I'm Always Checking Out New Bands.

Rastafarianism And Reggae Music Have Always Kind Of Resonated With Me. Those Ideas Of Redemption, Liberation And Overcoming Oppression Through Music, Weed And Community. Fighting Evil Through Love And Music, I Think It's Just A Really Powerful Idea.

In A Way, To Have Whatever People Talk About As "crossover Success," I Think It Means You Start Making Bad Music. I Mean, When I'm Flipping Through The Channels And See The Vmas Or Something, I Don't Really See Any Music There.